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The Richmond Times-Dispatch won 61 awards — including the coveted Grand Sweepstakes title for overall excellence among daily newspapers of its size — during the Virginia Press Association’s annual contest.
In the news category, 28 first-place honors were awarded to The Times-Dispatch for:
Column writing: Bill LohmannSports column writing: David TeelData journalism: reporter Sean McGoeyBusiness and financial writing: reporters Eric Kolenich, Michael Martz and Luca Powell for their coverage of issues at Richmond Community HospitalMultimedia report: visual journalist Eva Russo for her series “Farming from the margins”Video: Kelli Lemon, Matt Pochily and Bill Barksdale for their “A1 Minute” updatesCritical writing: Justin Lo for his coverage of restaurantsPhotography: Russo for her photos of a domestic violence survivorPersonality or portrait photo: RussoPicture story or essay: RussoEducation writing: KolenichFeature writing portfolio: LohmannFeature story writing: KolenichHealth, science and environmental writing: KolenichPublic safety writing: Kolenich and former reporter Mark BowesInformational graphics: staffSpecial sections: staff for Flying Squirrels publication
First-place awards also went to former Times-Dispatch photographer Shaban Athuman for general news photo and sports feature photo; former photographer Alexa Welch Edlund for pictorial photo; and former designer Kira Rider for illustrations and page design.
Russo won the Best in Show award in the digital category.
Best in Show titles also went to Athuman in the photography category and Rider in the graphics, illustration and art bracket.
In the advertising contest, The Times-Dispatch won first-place awards in:
Digital advertising: Billy Garland, Jacob Remian, Emily Thompson and Reid KerleyEntertainment: Doris Ann Kane and Dwayne CarpenterFood and drug: Dana ElmquistMember self-promotion: Kane and RemianProfessional services: Farah WaltonSpecial sections: Clay Barbour, Lewis Brissman, Carpenter, Stephen Summerell, Doug Childers and Ben SwensonThe Times-Dispatch also won the Advertising and News sweepstakes groups.
“We have an incredibly talented staff at The Times-Dispatch, and this kind of recognition from our peers speaks to that,” said Chris Coates, executive editor. “I’m deeply proud of their work.”
The honors were awarded during a ceremony at the Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa Short Pump on Saturday at the end of the association's annual conference.
The Tennessee Press Association judged the entries.
50 photos from the RTD Archives
This February 1953 image shows East Main Street near 10th Street in downtown Richmond, with Rao’s Restaurant on the corner at left.
Staff
In May 1950, Willie Bradby (left) and Pamunkey Chief Tecumseh Deerfoot Cook checked a shad net on their reservation in King William County. The tribe had a profitable year from fishing, so it made a donation to the Richmond Memorial Hospital building fund in memory of tribe member Charles Bush, who had been killed in World War II. The chief noted that sick tribe members were treated at Richmond hospitals, so the Pamunkey wanted to help the construction effort.
RTD Staff
In October 1958, Judy Ann Austin was named Queen of Tobaccoland and honored in the National Tobacco Festival parade. The festival ran in Richmond from 1949 to 1984 and was a top event in the city during its run. Austin, 18, who had been runner-up in the Miss South Carolina pageant in addition to numerous other pageant wins, had lived in Richmond when she was a child. Tobacco Festival Queen Rides Away on Float. Judy Ann Austin Adds Honor to a Growing List.
Staff
In April 1937, several blocks of lower Hull Street, the main thoroughfare in South Richmond, were flooded so completely that it took rowboats and hip-waders to reach buildings. Three days of rains had caused the James River to crest at 27 feet. About 700 men worked around the clock for up to 36 hours to secure the dike. Total property damage in Richmond was estimate at more than $100,000.
RTD Staff
In December 1952, Richmond’s Lady Wonder indicated that a mute 6-year-old Rhode Island boy, missing for more than two months, was alive but hurt and could be found in Kansas. Lady had developed a reputation as a psychic horse, and the boy’s mother, who read about Lady and was desperate for help, arranged for her to field questions about the case. Tragically, the child’s skull was found a year later only 1 mile from his Rhode Island school. Missing Boy Alive, Wonder Horse 'Says' Carefully, She Spells Out Word, 'Yes' [Lady Wonder]
Staff
In July 1948, the Sixth Street Market in Richmond had an abundance of locally grown produce. Hanover tomatoes were 10 cents a pound, Crozet peaches were 2 pounds for 35 cents, and butterbeans were 70 cents a pint. Local melons were not available, and the watermelons from other states cost between 50 cents and $1, down from $2 earlier in the season. Other local vegetable prices included carrots for 10 cents a bunch, cucumbers for 5 cents each, cabbage at 5 cents per pound, and squash at 15 cents for 2 pounds.
Times-Dispatch
In June 1943, students at the Grace Arents School celebrated the end of the school year. The Oregon Hill school, which opened in 1911, honored the philanthropist for her donation of the land and $5,000 toward the building. After decades as an elementary school and later a special education school, the building has housed Open High School since 1989. 6-10-1943: School's all over until next Fall for these Grace Arents students, shown as school was dismissed today.
RTD Staff
On Nov. 9, 1944, downtown merchants found a layer of soot covering much of First to Eighth streets, between Marshall and Main streets. Some called it “black snow,” but it required more cleanup – sidewalks, shop windows and car windshields had to be swept, scrubbed or hosed off. Local weatherman Foy Hibbard called it a normal occurrence caused by a lack of wind, though this was the first time anyone recalled such a happening, and a better explanation was never offered. 11-9-1944: Grace Street sidewalk being cleared of today's 'black snow.' Soot and grime. Air pollution.
RTD Staff
In February 1957, “Miss Lula” Pugh (in hat) said goodbye as she retired after 47 years working for C.F. Sauer Co. in Richmond. Sauer’s, established in 1887, was located at Broad and Meadow streets. The plant featured the sweet smells of its many spices and flavorings.
Times-Dispatch
In June 1946, James Q. Jones took his male donkey on a two-week breeding circuit through Goochland, Louisa and Hanover counties. Jones “bugled his brains out” on his Boy Scout bugle to alert nearby horse owners and members of the League for Planned Mule Parenthood of his arrival.
Times-Dispatch
In August 1945, Richmond News Leader reporter Irene Stickler got her palm read by a fortune teller at the newspaper office. For a story, Stickler got her fortune told by six area psychics and compared their interpretations of her past, present and future.
Times-Dispatch
In October 1955, five members of the Goldwyn Girls, who made an appearance in Richmond during the National Tobacco Festival, bid farewell to a local representative. The women were a part of a famous musical stock company, established by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, that performed in traveling shows. Several Goldwyn Girls went on to become Hollywood stars, most notably Lucille Ball.
Staff photo
In March 1952, Mrs. V.C. Wiltshire, 85, prepared for spring planting at her home on Patterson Avenue in Richmond.
Staff photo
In May 1964, Mrs. C.L. Pugh, a nurse at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, cared for a burn victim. Large plastic coverings with built-in gloves isolated patients’ beds in the burn ward to prevent infection.
Don Pennell
In December 1957, firefighters battled at blaze at L.R. Brown & Co., a furniture store on Hull Street in South Richmond. The warehouse blaze destroyed a lot of pieces intended for Christmas gifts.
Staff photo
In July 1951, two women enjoyed the white sand beach of Cape Charles on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Staff photo
In September 1948, as the school year started, Dick Harvey gave a playful tug to Sue Gallegher's pigtails. The new year saw an unexpected boom in registrations across the area. Bellmeade and Summer Hill schools on the Petersburg Pike saw such an increase that they considered adding staff and operating classes on two shifts.
RTD Staff
In September 1970, children enjoyed a ride on a roller coaster at the 62nd annual Southside Virginia Fair. Attendance at the weeklong event was running ahead of 1969's record 160,000. But in 1977, officials announced that the Petersburg-based fair, Virginia’s second-largest, would cease operations after experiencing drops in attendance, livestock exhibitors and revenue.
James Ezzell
In January 1973, David Alexander (left) and his brother, Martin, delivered the Richmond News Leader on the newspaper route they had shared for about a year. One would take one side of the street and one took the other.
Bill Lane
In December 1951, the Staples Mill Pond froze, giving people the chance to dust off their ice skates and have some fun. The pond was a popular ice-skating spot whenever it froze.
Richmond Crawford Jr.
In July 1954, the domes on the Mosque were in a state of disrepair and needed maintenance. At a cost of about $1,000, the copper coverings on the two minarets were repaired, and new support rods were installed.
Staff photo
07-31-1985 (cutline): Bolt jolt--So that's where they get it! The Virginia Electric and Power Co. building in downtown Richmond was in the foreground of this line of lightning last night. The storm brought .22 inches of the day's .86 total rainfall, according to National Weather Service.
P. Kevin Morley
The Dec. 6, 1953, edition of The Times-Dispatch included a photo spread on the Southern Biscuit Co., whose products – under the Famous Foods of Virginia brand – established the company as one of America's largest producers of cookies and crackers. Here, baked cookies moved along a conveyor. The Richmond factory near Scott’s Addition now houses the Cookie Factory Lofts apartment complex.
Staff photo
In May 1972, Italian artisan Nino Buffoni demonstrated the ancient art of free-form glass blowing. Buffoni was preparing to exhibit his art at Eastgate Mall in Henrico County. At one point, he even did custom work for Disney.
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An Easter Cross as a Memorial. The American Gold Star Mothers of Virginia placed an Easter cross at Virginia's War Memorial March 28, 1959 as a tribute to the state's war dead. The cross was placed on behalf of chapters in Richmond, Roanoke, Portsmouth, Alexandria and Arlington. Placing the memorial are (left to right) Mrs. R. J. Reynolds, Richmond chapter chapliain; Mrs. William W. Nicholas Sr., department of Virginia first vice president, and Mrs. Nora B. Moon, chapter president.
James Netherwood Jr.
8/10/2015: This January 1967 image shows the new Bull & Bear Club, located on the 23rd floor of the Fidelity Bankers Life Building at Ninth and Main streets in Richmond. Among other amenities, members enjoyed an intimate lounge area where they could monitor the New York Stock Exchange via a ticker behind the bar. The club, which later moved to the James Center, closed in May 2015.
Don Pennell
In May 1934, workers from G. Krueger Brewing Co. transported beer barrels on West Broad Street in Richmond. The company, which was founded in Newark, N.J., joined the American Can Co. in 1934 to experiment with putting beer in a can, and Krueger chose Richmond as test market. In 1935, it sold the first can of beer in history in Richmond, and many breweries soon followed suit.
Staff photo
In May 1968, Royal Excuse led Annapolis Girl early on, but Annapolis Girl ultimately won the half-mile Thoroughbred event at the Goochland County Races. Almost 3,500 spectators gathered at the Goochland Fairgrounds to watch the day’s contests.
Bill Lane
06-28-1950
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02-13-1982 (cutline): Crazy Zanies' belly dancers, Al E. Gator, conehead and gorilla pose for family portrait.
Amir M. Pishdad
In April 1965, a huge trash bin was displayed on Fifth Street in downtown Richmond to dramatize an ongoing anti-litter campaign. The effort was organized by several litter-prevention and beautification groups and was supported by Gov. Albertis S. Harrison.
Staff photo
In November 1982, a young Pamunkey Indian sat atop part of the tribe’s annual tribute, which was given to the state government in lieu of a tax payment. The offering came in the form of game, most often deer and wild turkey, and commemorates the 17th-century peace treaty between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribes and the English.
George Lamm
In July 1967, members of the YMCA-sponsored Camp Weyanoke learned about boating. The 250-acre camp, on the James River in Charles City County, was expecting more that 400 area boys that summer. In addition to sailing, boys ages 8 to 15 enjoyed horseback riding, archery, riflery, water skiing, canoeing, rowing and camping.
O'Neil
This August 1984 image shows part of death row, including haunting artwork, at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center. In May, six death row inmates, including the Briley Brothers, escaped after studying the behavior of guards, overpowering them, stealing their uniforms and feigning a bomb threat in order to get out of the unit. All were recaptured and later executed.
Bob Brown
In October 1977, members of the Boys Club of Richmond, located on North Robinson Street, gathered to play pingpong and chess. The club was an agency of the United Way and offered youth development programs to promote independence, fitness and leadership.
Don Pennell
In November 1940, the Richmond News Leader published a photo essay titled “Working … on the railroad, ” which featured laborers on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. This image shows motor cars being lifted off the tracks at the end of the day, while the cook in the kitchen car in the background signals that it’s dinnertime.
Times-Dispatch
In April 1941, retired Pamunkey Indian chief J.R. Bradley removed kinks from his net during shad fishing season near the reservation in King William County. At the time, shad was one of the most valuable commercial food fishes in Virginia waters.
RTD Staff
This July 1950 photo shows Sharp’s Island, located on the James River in downtown Richmond. The island is part of an archipelago of islands adjacent to Mayo Island. The island was named after its owner, Russell Sharp, whose father bought the island many years prior.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
In July 1967, a new pool opened in South Richmond. The Blackwell pool, at 15th and Maury streets, received a formal opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony led by Mayor Morrill M. Crowe.
Bob Jones
In November 1956, The Times-Dispatch newsroom in downtown Richmond was buzzing with activity on Election Night. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was handily re-elected; in Virginia, he received 55 percent of the vote, while Adlai Stevenson collected 38 percent
Staff photo
In January 1949, state toxicologist Sidney Kaye tested blood for lead poisoning. He joined the chief medical examiner’s office in 1947 after working in the St. Louis police department’s research lab.
Times-Dispatch
This October 1954 photo shows the steeple after damage from Hurricane Hazel.
Staff
TD columnist Dorothy Robertson was most self taught in the culinary arts.
Staff photo
In April 1960, members of the Richmond Virginians lined up ahead of their International League season opener at Parker Field against Toronto. The Vees played in Richmond from 1954 to 1964 and were the AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees for much of that span.
Staff photo
HURRICANE AGNES 1972: June 22, 1972 Photographer Bill Lane - (cutline) Main Street Station in Richmond, Va. sites amidst waters of Tropical Storm Agnes
Bill Lane
In July 1933, a group of Richmonders enjoyed lunch and lager at a local establishment. Virginia lawmakers were close to legalizing some beer sales as the Prohibition era was nearing its end.
Staff photo
05-31-1971 (cutline): Voting Machines destined for Henrico Polling booths are unloaded.
Staff photo
01-26-1940 (cutline): Thirteenth and Main Sts. as they appeared two days after 15 to 22-inch snowfall of 1940.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WVNS) – A man wanted for the murder in McDowell County was arrested in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Stout was wanted in connection with the murder of Barbara Baker, whose body was found on April 1, 2023, in a car in McDowell County.
On Saturday, Stout was spotted by an off-duty New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputy who recognized Stout from his wanted poster.
The off-duty deputy contacted local law enforcement and the U.S. Marshals office, who worked together to arrest Stout after a short chase on foot.
Stout is currently in a North Carolina jail, but he is expected to be extradited back to West Virginia. He is expected to face criminal charges in North Carolina as well. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-man-wanted-for-murder-arrested-in-north-carolina/ | 2023-05-07T18:59:03 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-man-wanted-for-murder-arrested-in-north-carolina/ |
PLANT CITY, Fla. — A 25-year-old Mulberry, Florida man was arrested Sunday morning after going on a high-speed chase and crashing into a Plant City church, according to the arrest report.
Around 6:30 a.m., a Florida Highway Patrol trooper saw Damian Alfonso Rios speeding north on Willow Oak Road as he came to the intersection. The trooper said Rios didn't stop at the stop sign and instead turned west onto Turner Road.
The arrest report says the trooper began to chase Rios, but the 25-year-old didn't stop and drove on the wrong side of the road. The trooper said he saw Rios not stopping for multiple stop signs and at one point was going around 100 MPH.
FHP says the chase eventually ended up westbound on State Road 60, where Rios attempted to turn right near Mud Lake Road but drove onto the west shoulder and struck Iglesia Dios Con Nosotros.
The trooper said Rios had a "strong order of an alcoholic beverage coming from his mouth area. He was unsteady on his feet and had bloodshot water eyes."
Rios was taken to a nearby hospital but later released and sent to the Hillsborough County Jail.
The 25-year-old is currently charged with reckless driving, feeding from law enforcement at high speeds, DUI and careless driving. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/man-crashing-into-dui-high-speed-chase/67-2dd345d2-e992-4091-a146-8ff120d72123 | 2023-05-07T18:59:09 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/man-crashing-into-dui-high-speed-chase/67-2dd345d2-e992-4091-a146-8ff120d72123 |
TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa couple's baby nearly died from diabetic ketoacidosis five years ago. Today, Owen Eriksen is healthy, wears an insulin pump and eats a tightly balanced diet. His parents are determined to help find a cure for juvenile diabetes in Owen's lifetime.
Owen’s mom and dad created Owen’s Heroes. It’s a charity that raises money and awareness for Type 1 Diabetes. They sponsor a boys' lacrosse team that competes for trophies and the diabetic cause.
“It’s a combination of our families two passions,” said Owen’s mom Ashley.
Teens from different schools come together to play on the team. “They have really taken it to heart and we have actually challenged each of the kids on the team to raise $300 in their own creative way to give back to the charity,” said Owen’s dad Scot.
The group is not only playing for a good cause, but they are also a skilled group of young athletes. They will be competing in the Lacrosse World Series Championship this summer.
“I have coached a lot of teams over the years and it's very different seeing them all the sudden realize they are playing a game they love but there’s also something more to it,” said head coach Scott Watts.
The competition is taking place at the end of June in North Carolina. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-lacrosse-team-supporting-type-1-diabetes-research/67-e8e6a547-281e-4edd-9142-fe2e3dd2bac4 | 2023-05-07T18:59:15 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-lacrosse-team-supporting-type-1-diabetes-research/67-e8e6a547-281e-4edd-9142-fe2e3dd2bac4 |
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. — The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 38-year-old woman who has been missing for over a month, according to a news release.
Nicole Ettinger was last seen around 8 p.m. on April 3 in the Central Boulevard area of Land O' Lakes, deputies say.
It is unknown what Ettinger was last wearing, but she is described to be around 5 feet, 6 inches with brown hair and brown eyes.
If you have any information on Ettinger's whereabouts, please call the Pasco Sheriff's Non-Emergency Line at 727-847-8102, option 7, or report tips online at PascoSheriff.com/tips. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-woman-missing-nicole-ettinger/67-cd5a6241-bb27-482b-a229-73f7182070d3 | 2023-05-07T18:59:21 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-woman-missing-nicole-ettinger/67-cd5a6241-bb27-482b-a229-73f7182070d3 |
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Frisco Police say teens running through Stonebriar Centre Mall and causing chaos led to an evacuation and fears over a possible second shooting at a Collin County shopping center Saturday.
The evacuation came hours after eight people were gunned down and seven others were injured in a mass shooting outside the nearby Allen Premium Outlets.
Frisco Police said officers responded to a shooting call at the mall but found no evidence of one having taken place. After interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance video, police said it appears that a large group of teens gathered inside the mall and then they began screaming and running through the mall causing chaos and panic.
Police said no evidence of any shots being fired and there were no shooting victims located.
Frisco Police told NBC 5 that any injuries to shoppers may have come from people trying to exit the mall.
Dulce Chavarra spoke with NBC 5's Alanna Quillen outside the mall and said she was waiting for her sister who was inside.
"Average Saturday night, this is what we're dealing with and to know that earlier today that there were instances where a person does not get to hug their family member like I did today. That's just what was going through my mind. Just know I'm at the door and I'm going to get you when you get here," said Chavarra.
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The annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Dallas brought crowds of people to Oak Cliff this weekend.
The parade route was along historic Jefferson Boulevard, where several people lined up early Saturday morning to watch floats and marchers. Rachel Garcia moved to Dallas about a year and a half ago and said this was a way to get to know her new community.
“I think Oak Cliff does parades really well,” Garcia said. “Going to these local parades is something we look forward to every year.”
May 5 commemorates the Battle of Puebla fought between the Mexican army and French in 1862. Joaquin Solis of Dallas said he spends Cinco de Mayo with his family every year.
“I think it’s a very important day for Mexican history, and I’m glad it’s recognition elsewhere in the U.S.,” Solis said.
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Below is a comprehensive listing of elections held during the May 6, 2023, municipal election in Denton County. Click on each race name to see the results for that race. (Results will be available after the polls close at 7 p.m.)
To see races for other counties or sorted by proposition type, filter by clicking on the following links: Collin County | Dallas County | Tarrant County | Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Rockwall, Wise | ISD Bond Props | City Bond Props | All Races
DENTON COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
- ARGYLE ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 1
- ARGYLE ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 2
- ARGYLE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- ARGYLE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 4
- AUBREY ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 7
- CARROLLTON – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- CARROLLTON – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 4
- CARROLLTON – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 6
- CARROLLTON – MAYOR
- CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD - SCHOOL TRUSTEE AT LARGE
- CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD PROPOSITION A
- CELINA ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 3
- CELINA ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 4
- CELINA – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 4
- CELINA – MAYOR
- COPPELL ISD – PROP. A – SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
- COPPELL ISD – PROP. B – TECHNOLOGY
- COPPELL ISD – PROP. C – STADIUM
- COPPELL ISD – PROP. D – FIELD HOUSE, TENNIS CTR.
- COPPELL ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 4
- COPPELL ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 5
- COPPELL – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 1
- CORINTH – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- CORINTH – MAYOR
- CORRAL CITY – PROP. A – SALES TAX
- CROSS ROADS – CITY COUNCIL
- DALLAS – MAYOR
- DENTON ISD – PROP. A – SCHOOL FACILITIES
- DENTON ISD – PROP. B – TECHNOLOGY
- DENTON ISD – PROP. C – STADIUM
- DENTON ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- DENTON ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 7
- DENTON – CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 1
- DENTON – CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 3
- DENTON – CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 4
- DENTON – PROP. A – RECALL
- DOUBLE OAK – MAYOR
- DOUBLE OAK – TOWN COUNCIL
- FLOWER MOUND – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- FLOWER MOUND – PROP. A – PARKS AND REC
- FLOWER MOUND – PROP. A – PARKS AND REC
- FORT WORTH – CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT 10
- FORT WORTH – MAYOR
- FRISCO ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 4
- FRISCO ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 5
- FRISCO – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- FRISCO – MAYOR
- FRISCO – PROP. A – PUBLIC SAFETY
- FRISCO – PROP. B – ROADS
- FRISCO – PROP. C – PARKS BUILDING
- FRISCO – PROP. D – PARKS, TRAILS
- FRISCO – PROP. E – PARKING GARAGE
- HIGHLAND VILLAGE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- JUSTIN – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- JUSTIN – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- JUSTIN – MAYOR
- KRUM ISD – TRUSTEE
- KRUM – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- LEWISVILLE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- LITTLE ELM ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 1
- LITTLE ELM ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 3
- LITTLE ELM – TOWN COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- LITTLE ELM – TOWN COUNCIL – PLACE 6
- NORTHLAKE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- NORTHLAKE – PROP. A – SPORTS VENUE
- NORTHWEST ISD – PROP. A – FACILITIES, BUSES
- NORTHWEST ISD – PROP. B – NELSON STADIUM
- NORTHWEST ISD – PROP. C – TECHNOLOGY
- NORTHWEST ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 5
- NORTHWEST ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- NORTHWEST ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 7
- PILOT POINT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 1
- PILOT POINT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- PILOT POINT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- PLANO – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- PLANO – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- PONDER ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 1
- PONDER – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- PONDER – MAYOR
- PROSPER ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 2
- PROSPER ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 5
- PROSPER – PROP. A – CRIME CONTROL TAX
- PROSPER – PROP. B – FIRE, EMERGENCY
- PROVIDENCE VILLAGE – ALDERMAN – PLACE 6
- SANGER ISD – PLACE 1
- SANGER ISD – PLACE 6
- SANGER – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 1
To see races in other counties, visit the county's election page directly to see the latest results by clicking on the link here: Anderson, Bosque, Comanche, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Freestone, Hamilton, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Jack, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Van Zandt, Wise.
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Below is a comprehensive listing of elections held during the May 6, 2023, municipal election in Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Rockwall and Wise counties. Click on each race name to see the results for that race. (Results will be available after the polls close at 7 p.m.)
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ELLIS COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
- CEDAR HILL ISD – PROP.A – SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
- CEDAR HILL ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 5
- CEDAR HILL – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 6
- FERRIS ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- FERRIS ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 7
- MANSFIELD ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- MANSFIELD – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- MANSFIELD – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 6
- MANSFIELD – PROP. A – REC, CITY CENTERS
- MANSFIELD – PROP. B – SPORTS VENUE
JOHNSON COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
- BURLESON ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 3
- BURLESON ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 4
- BURLESON – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 2
- BURLESON – MAYOR
- GODLEY ISD – BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- GODLEY ISD – PROP. A – SCHOOL BONDS
- MANSFIELD ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- MANSFIELD – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- MANSFIELD – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 6
- MANSFIELD – PROP. A – REC, CITY CENTERS
- MANSFIELD – PROP. B – SPORTS VENUE
PARKER COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
- ALEDO ISD – PROP. A – SCHOOL BONDS
- ALEDO ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 6
- ALEDO ISD – TRUSTEE – PLACE 7
- AZLE – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 6
ROCKWALL COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
- ROWLETT – BOND PROP. A – PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES
- ROWLETT – BOND PROP. B – ANIMAL SHELTER
- ROWLETT – BOND PROP. C – HERFURTH PARK
- ROWLETT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 1
- ROWLETT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 3
- ROWLETT – CITY COUNCIL – PLACE 5
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. A – COUNCIL ATTENDANCE
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. B – MEETINGS
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. C – COURT CLERK
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. D – JUDGE REMOVAL
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. E – CHARTER REVIEW
- ROWLETT – SPECIAL PROP. F – REVIEW COMMISSION
WISE COUNTY ELECTION RACE RESULTS
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What to Know
- A person opened fire at an outdoor shopping center in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, killing eight people Saturday afternoon and injuring seven others.
- A hospital says victims being treated range in age from 5 to 61.
- The gunman has been killed, police said, but no further information has been confirmed about the shooter or the weapon used.
Eight people are dead and at least seven others are injured after a mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets Saturday afternoon, according to police officials. The shooter is also dead, bringing the death total to nine.
Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd confirmed at about 9 p.m. Saturday that the gunman killed six people at the mall and injured at least nine others. Of the nine who were hospitalized, two later died bringing the total number of people killed to nine, including the gunman.
On Sunday, the Allen Police Department said four patients were being treated at Medical City McKinney, one in fair condition and three in critical condition. One patient was transferred to Medical City Plano, a Level I Trauma Center, and is listed in fair condition. One patient was transferred to Medical City Children's Hospital and is in fair condition. Another was treated at a different area hospital.
Medical City Healthcare told NBC 5 Saturday that shooting victims ranged in age from 5 years old to 61 years old.
Boyd cautioned that there could be additional victims who were injured in the shooting and who were taken to hospitals in other ways.
U.S. Rep. Keith Self (R-McKinney, District 3) said on Twitter at about 6:15 p.m. that the gunman was no longer a threat and that there were a number of casualties, which Allen Chief of Police Brian Harvey later confirmed at a news conference at about 6:30 p.m.
Harvey said an officer was at the outlet mall responding to an unrelated call when he heard gunfire at about 3:30 p.m. Harvey said the officer ran toward the gunfire, found the gunman and "neutralized" him. The officer then made the call for ambulances.
Harvey said they believe the gunman acted alone and that there is no ongoing threat to the community.
"Our deepest sympathies are with the families of the victims," said Harvey. "This is a tragedy, people will be looking for answers, we're sorry that those families are experiencing that loss."
In a tweet Saturday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed the active shooter situation at the mall at about 4:30 p.m., about 60 minutes after the incident took place. The bureau sent agents to the mall and helped local police in the initial response of clearing stores in the sprawling outdoor mall.
An ATF spokesperson told NBC 5 agents and K-9 officers are now working to locate shell casings and begin the process of tracing the firearm or firearms involved in the attack.
ALLEN PREMIUM OUTLETS SHOOTING
WITNESSES REPORT TAKING SHELTER, SEEING BODIES
Several witnesses described to NBC 5 that they saw several people who had been shot. Officials later confirmed there were six people killed at the sprawling outdoor mall and at least nine others were injured. Two of those later died. With the death of the gunman, the total climbed to nine deceased.
Hundreds of people were evacuated and were being kept in a parking lot across from the mall, waiting for someone to pick them up or being allowed back to their cars. Officials said it may be up to 24 hours before people will be allowed to remove cars from the parking lot.
Witnesses described moments of terror as they sheltered inside stores for as long as an hour before they were evacuated.
One man, who said he was an employee of a store at the mall, told NBC 5 he and a co-worker saw bullets hitting the columns in front of the shop and ducked to the ground. They managed to make it to a back room, where they barricaded themselves.
They described seeing who they believed to be the gunman, wearing a mask and police-like attire.
Bullet holes could be seen in cars in the mall parking lot as well as in storefronts.
The shooting drew a large law enforcement presence from several federal, state and local agencies.
The sprawling outlet mall has about 120 stores and is said to typically be very busy on weekends. The Allen Police Department posted on its social media accounts to avoid the area until further updates.
Allen police also ask that witnesses or anyone with footage contact the FBI by calling 1-800-225-5324 (800-CALL-FBI).
ALLEN PREMIUM OUTLETS SHOOTING
POLITICIANS PLEDGE SUPPORT, OFFER PRAYERS
In a written statement, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said he was aware of the shooting and offered the state's assistance in investigating the shooting.
“Our hearts are with the people of Allen, Texas tonight during this unspeakable tragedy,” Abbott said. “I have been in contact with Mayor Fulk and DPS Director McCraw as well as other state and local leaders and offered the full support of the State of Texas to local officials to ensure all needed assistance and resources are swiftly deployed, including DPS officers, Texas Rangers, and investigative resources.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) issued this statement today following news of the shooting in Allen:
“Please join Jan and me in mourning the victims of the unspeakable tragedy in Allen. Please also join us in prayer for the victims’ families and friends along with the residents of Allen. We are grateful for our brave first responders who were deployed to stop the shooter and investigate this hideous crime. We are thankful for their bravery and courage.”
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) national president Domingo Garcia called on Abbott, Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan to convene an emergency meeting on Monday at the Texas Capitol.
"We must stop this epidemic of killings by declaring that Texas is taking immediate steps to prevent more mass shootings that are becoming all too frequent." Garcia said. "It is no longer enough to express condolences and say prayers after the fact without taking the commonsense steps and enacting laws which can be enforced effectively to address this threat to our communities. Also, politicians doing nothing is no longer acceptable."
State Rep. Rhetta Bowers (D-Garland, District 113) released the following statement Saturday night regarding the mass shooting, which took place near her district and involved a mall she frequents with her family.
“My heart breaks, as it has too many times before, for the victims and their loved ones affected by this senseless act of mass murder. They will all remain in my thoughts and prayers for the weeks to come. I also commend the heroic and swift police response that neutralized the shooter before even more lives could be lost. However, it must be said that these tragedies will continue to occur so long as Texas fails to enact common sense gun safety reforms and invests in mental healthcare and the social safety net. I am committed to all of the above, and to doing everything I can so that no family ever has to face this devastating violence again.”
Texas Democratic Party Communications Director Ike Hajinazarian, who is based in Plano just a few miles south of the Allen Premium Outlets, issued a statement calling on Republican representatives in the area, State Rep. Jeff Leach and State Sen. Angela Paxton, to take up legislation this session that would prevent future mass shootings.
"So let me say to Jeff Leach and Angela Paxton as one of your constituents: DO SOMETHING. Not one single responsible gun owner in your districts wants these extreme, off-the-wall NRA-lobbied ‘laws’ – or lack thereof – you guys have been shoving down our throats for the past decade in order to win your ridiculous primaries," Hajinazarian wrote. “Permitless carry (a bill Rep. Leach co-authored in 2021) is a disaster. Letting high schoolers buy ARs is a disaster. Letting rifles fly off the shelves with reckless abandon and flooding Texas streets with firearms is a disaster. Refusing to enact red-flag laws has been a disaster."
Rep. Jeff Leach (R-Plano, District 67), who spoke at a news conference at about 9 p.m. Saturday night, also issued the following statement on Twitter.
"I'm deeply saddened by the horrific events that occurred today at the Allen Premium Outlets, right in the heart of House District 67, and am praying for the victims and all those affected by this horrible tragedy. I returned to Allen from the Capitol and am on-site, working with our law enforcement agencies to provide whatever support is needed. I am thankful for the Allen Police Department, the Collin County Sheriff's Office, Texas DPS - and all of our law enforcement agencies - for responding heroically, swiftly and for taking immediate action. I will continue to monitor the situation and keep you apprised of information as I receive it."
U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz both shared statements on Twitter offering prayers but also gratitude for the officer who stopped the shooter.
"Heidi and I are praying for the families of the victims of the horrific mall shooting in Allen, Texas. We pray also for the broader Collin County community that’s in shock from this tragedy. My team is in contact with local officials, and I have offered whatever support is needed to do justice and help those in need. Thank you to the incredible law enforcement who put a stop to the monster who committed this act of evil," Cruz tweeted.
"I am grieving with the Allen community tonight, and I send my gratitude to the brave @Allen_Police officers, Collin County first responders, and all of those involved in responding to this afternoon’s horrific incident," Cornyn tweeted.
Neither Cruz nor Cornyn mentioned gun legislation or committed to working to reduce gun violence, but both offered to support "those in need" which included Cornyn sharing a disaster distress helpline run by the Texas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI Texas' tweet is below for those who need it.
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An investigative committee on Saturday recommended that the House expel North Texas GOP Rep. Bryan Slaton for inappropriate sexual conduct with a 19-year-old legislative intern.
Slaton, R-Royse City, faces an expulsion vote by fellow House members as early as Tuesday.
The House General Investigating Committee retained a former Harris County state district judge to conduct an investigation, which confirmed the complaints made by three young women, said Committee Chairman Andrew Murr, R-Junction.
“We find that Rep. Slaton has engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a subordinate,” Murr told the entire 150-member House shortly before copies of the committee’s report were distributed.
“That behavior was induced by alcohol that Rep. Slaton provided to that 19-year-old subordinate,” Murr said.
“Rep. Slaton then acted systematically to influence that subordinate and multiple witnesses and obstruct the investigation into the matter to the detriment of both our chamber and those who work here.”
The House has not expelled a member since 1927, when two state representatives were tossed out after a bribery scandal, according to the Legislative Research Library.
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One person is dead and two others were taken to the hospital when a Cessna 310 crashed in a field near Ennis Municipal Airport around 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson.
Officials say the plane was attempting to land and then crashed. Of the three passengers, two were taken to Dallas hospitals and the other person died at the crash site, according to the spokesperson.
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President Joe Biden has ordered the United States flag to be flown at half-staff across the country until sunset on May 11, 2023, in honor of the victims of the Allen Premium Outlets shooting.
The mass shooting took place when a man opened fire at the outlet mall just after 3:30 p.m. May 6.
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North Texans will gather Sunday evening to honor the victims of the mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets.
A community prayer service is planned for 5 p.m. at Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church. The church is located off the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Allen.
Eight people are dead and at least seven others are injured after a mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets Saturday afternoon before the assailant was killed by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said.
John Mark Caton, senior pastor at Cottonwood Creek Church, about two miles from the mall, offered prayers during his weekly service for victims, first responders and the shoppers and employees who "walked out past things they never should have seen."
"Some of our people were there. Some perhaps in this room. Some of our students were working in those stores and will be changed forever by this," Caton said.
Recalling phone conversations with police officers, he said: "There wasn't an officer that I talked to yesterday that at some point in the call didn't cry."
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Medical City Healthcare told NBC 5 Saturday they were providing trauma care to shooting victims who ranged in age from 5 years old to 61 years old.
Witnesses described moments of terror and seeing bodies as they sheltered inside stores.
Politicians have pledged support and offered prayers. President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. Flags lowered to half-staff.
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STANFORD — Olympia High School prom was held Saturday, April 29, at the Aaron Leetch Club in Illinois State University's Hancock Stadium, Normal.
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Canton Hall of Fame Marathon draws crowd for final hurrah
- Sunday was the big event with the marathon, half marathon, 10K and team relay races starting at 7 a.m. downtown.
- Participants and spectators came from near and far.
- The race results are posted at hofmarathon.com/results.
CANTON − More than 3,800 people took part in this weekend's 10th and final Canton Hall of Fame Marathon race weekend.
It began with a health and fitness expo Friday at the Canton Memorial Civic Center and continued Saturday with a 5K and kids' half-mile race. Sunday was the big event with the marathon, half marathon, 10K and team relay races starting at 7 a.m. downtown.
Participants and spectators congregated at Centennial Plaza near the start on Market Avenue N before the races began ― eating, warming up and taking photos. The race results are posted at hofmarathon.com/results.
Here are some of the scenes from Sunday:
Read more:Canton Hall of Fame Marathon changes gears. Are fewer people running marathons?
'You got this'
Alicia Miller, of Sugarcreek, and Kathy Kimble, of Dover, were in the crowd lining Market Avenue as a steady stream of racers chugged along. Miller held a sign to support their friend, whose last name is Numbers, during her first half marathon.
"You got this # 1" it read on one side and "You did it #1" on the other. The sign garnered remarks from runners, including "Yes, we got this," from a woman passing by.
"It looks like a great turnout," Kimble said.
They planned to follow the racers along the route as much as possible. Miller said the weather ― cloudy and in the upper 50s at the start ― was not too hot or too cold.
"It's like perfect," she said.
Shortly after 9 p.m., however, the clouds let loose and a steady rainfall as many runners were coming into finish.
Race season prep
Corey Fox approached the starting line wearing a Canton race T-shirt. The Cuyahoga Falls resident has run the half marathon every year since it began.
"It's close, and it's a good time of year," he said.
Fox said he's sad to see the spring race weekend end because it's been a good way to prepare for race season. The newly announced Pro Football Hall of Fame Race Series will end with a half marathon Aug. 25 in downtown Canton.
Bernard Prince, of Canton, was competing in his first marathon with a team from Aultman Hospital to push him in a racing wheelchair. The group, who Prince described as a "great bunch of folks," wore orange "Team Bernard" shirts.
"I was kind of nervous," Prince said before the race.
He's participated in shorter races but the event was larger than any before. Prince said it would help him determine if he can handle the Boston Marathon, for which he and his support team were trying to qualify.
Tracking the runners
Canton resident Roberta Muoio checked her phone at Cleveland Avenue and Fourth Street NW as she waited her turn as the final runner of her relay team, "Just Keep Running," which included her two sisters and two cousins.
They typically run the 5K race but wanted to challenge themselves in celebration of Muoio's 40th birthday. She was glad to learn that races will continue next year in Canton because they've always been a good time.
"It's just a good spirit about the day," Muoio said.
Jeff and Shelly Toth, of Youngstown, sat in folding chairs a block to the north waiting on their 43-year-old daughter who was running the half marathon. She participated every year but one and also is involved in the Youngstown marathon and is a Cleveland Marathon ambassador.
"The races are always great here," Jeff Toth said.
He followed his daughter's progress through the race's live-tracking feature and cheered for those who ran by in the meantime.
"Good job, runner!" Toth shouted. "You got this!"
All about the bling
Crystal Flowers, of Raleigh, N.C., and Cynthia Major, of Garner, N.C., learned about the Canton race from friends. They were both participating in the half marathon.
Major said she was "just looking forward to enjoying Canton" and taking good photos. Flowers was not looking forward to the hills but said she had her eyes on the prize ― the marathon and half marathon medals are fashioned after Super Bowl rings.
"We want the bling," Flowers said.
At the finish line, sisters Nina Cannon and Angela Lewis distributed the medals and instructed runners where to go for food and water. They came from Columbus to participate in the 5K and decided to stay another day to volunteer.
Both said they enjoying their first race weekend in Canton.
"The medals are awesome," Cannon added.
A family event
Orrville resident Maya Hamsher, 20, came in first place for the female division of the 10K. She then ate pizza in Centennial Plaza with her cousin, 15-year-old Evan Ream, and his father Lance Ream, of Kirtland, who also ran the 10K.
Hamsher, whose parents joined the group after finishing their race, said the group normally runs as a relay team. Her 10K training didn't require much of a change in her routine.
"I run in college, so that's basically what I did," she said.
Lance Ream has run 10K races before but said it was Evan's first. They will be considering their race options for next year since there is no team relay in the new race series.
"It's a hilly course, but they do a good job here," Lance Ream said.
It also was the first 10K for Hamsher's parents, Matt and Buffy. Their other daughter, Emerson, was running her first marathon.
"The downtown is really nice to run," Matt Hamsher said.
Buffy agreed, "Everybody's so positive" she added.
Reach Kelly at 330-580-8323 or kelly.byer@cantonrep.comOn Twitter: @kbyerREP | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/05/07/canton-hall-of-fame-marathon-draws-crowd-for-final-hurrah/70185416007/ | 2023-05-07T19:22:52 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/05/07/canton-hall-of-fame-marathon-draws-crowd-for-final-hurrah/70185416007/ |
Headliners announced for second Juneteenth Jubilee festival in downtown Fayetteville
A Fayetteville native’s funk and disco band will perform as one of the headlining acts at the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee next month, the Cool Springs Downtown District announced Thursday.
The Jubilee will take place in Festival Park in downtown Fayetteville on June 17 and 18, according to a news release. A celebration of Black culture and history, the Juneteenth Jubilee festival began last year as part of a collaboration between the Cool Springs Downtown District, Cumulus Media and Circa 1865, a nonprofit founded by Spring Lake Mayor Kia Anthony.
This year’s festival features a 1970s Throwback theme, according to organizers. In the spirit of the 1970s theme, three funk and soul acts were selected for the festival’s headlining acts, according to the Downtown District’s release.
The Fatback Band
The Fatback Band, founded in Fayetteville in 1966 by Bill “Fatback” Curtis, will serve as the festival’s opening headline act, according the release.
“Disco pioneers with a sound that merged jazz and funky beats with a touch of West Indies & Caribbean style, the Fatback Band has released more than 35 albums of original material infused with every imaginable genre of music, from jazz, funk, R&B, disco, rap, and all eras of soul,” the release said.
In a March 2020 interview with The Fayetteville Observer, Curtis, a drummer and percussionist, estimated The Fatback Band’s music has been sampled in other artists’ songs at least 35 times since the band’s founding. One notable example came in 2018 when singer Chaka Khan sampled portions of The Fatback Band’s 1975 song “(Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop” in her single “Like Sugar,” which garnered 38 million views on YouTube.
The Fatback Band is also thought to have released the first rap record in hip-hop history with its song “King Tim III (Personality Jock),” which was released five months before the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” the track more popularly cited as the first rap record.
Rose Royce and Tye Tribbett
The first day of the festival will be closed out by Grammy Award-winning soul and R&B group Rose Royce, according to the release.
Known for their soundtrack for the movie “Car Wash,” the band’s songs have been covered by artists like Beyonce, Mary J. Blige and Seal, the release said.
Day Two of the festival will feature Grammy Award-winning gospel artist Tye Tribbett, according to the release. Tribbett’s career spans more than two decades and includes collaborations with artists like Faith Hill, India Arie and Snoop Dogg, the release said.
Known as the “Elvis of Gospel,” Tribbett is both a musician and a pastor in Orlando, Florida, according to the release.
“Tribbett’s musical sound ranges from high-energy praise songs to intimate worship moments, from African rhythms to trap gospel beats, showcasing unique and passionate artistry at its best,” the release said.
Beyond the music
In addition to the festival’s headlining acts, Juneteenth Jubilee attendees can also expect to enjoy food from more than 20 local food trucks, dozens of local vendors and information and resources from local nonprofits, organizers said.
“With an estimated 100+ vendors, the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee guarantees something for everyone as we gather to celebrate freedom and (comm)unity,” the release said.
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Bounce houses, yard games and card games will also be available in a gaming area for those with children, according to the release.
A Black history trolley and outdoor roller-skating rink are two new features of the Jubilee this year, organizers said. Skates will be provided for the skating rink, and the “Can You Dig It Trolley” will offer a tour discussing Black Fayetteville in the 1970s, according to a news release.
Public safety reporter Lexi Solomon can be reached at ABSolomon@gannett.com. | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/fatback-band-one-of-three-headlining-acts-for-juneteenth-jubilee/70184196007/ | 2023-05-07T19:27:26 | 1 | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/fatback-band-one-of-three-headlining-acts-for-juneteenth-jubilee/70184196007/ |
TURLOCK, Calif. — Firefighters in Turlock traded in hoses and ladders for a lawn mower and a leaf blower Friday morning.
In a Facebook post, the Turlock Fire Department said that crews responded to a house after someone had a medical emergency while doing yardwork.
First responders provided care for the person, then took him or her to a hospital. Some firefighters stayed behind at the home and stepped in, finishing the patient's yardwork.
A photo posted to Facebook shows two firefighters mowing the patient's lawn and using a leaf blower. The post was met with more than 60 comments and 700 reactions in support of the firefighters-turned impromptu landscapers.
Watch more from ABC10: Sideshow crackdown fining spectators $1,000 in Turlock | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/turlock/firefighters-finish-yardwork/103-2467007a-fc34-44df-a997-400564c88b09 | 2023-05-07T19:35:05 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/turlock/firefighters-finish-yardwork/103-2467007a-fc34-44df-a997-400564c88b09 |
Hicks: Money illusion and inflation
MUNCIE, Ind. – Inflation is the decline in the value of currency caused by an increase in the supply of money.
The supply of money is increased by excessive government deficit spending or excessively loose monetary policy, typically low interest rates. We measure this decline in the value of currency through an increase in the price of goods and services. That’s it. That is inflation.
The United States, along with much of the developed world, is at the tail end of a surge of inflation that is higher than it has been for more than 40 years. This inflation has affected every good and service, as well as tax revenues and spending. There have also been real effects on prices, unrelated to inflation. Supply chains were clobbered by business closures, and most countries experienced significant labor force shocks due to COVID. People died, and people chose to remain at home. All these affected consumption and prices.
At the same time, COVID caused people to move; some 44 million Americans now work remotely and have much greater latitude to relocate their home. We had an outbreak of avian influenza that forced the destruction of chickens and caused a spike in the price of eggs. Russia invaded Ukraine, causing energy prices to spike.
All these different effects can be confusing, even disorienting. For anyone younger than about 60, this is especially true; inflation has been a peripheral issue thus far in their lives. Growing older is a great gift. Being old enough not to become unhinged over inflation is marvelous.
For younger Americans, who are less seasoned or wise, inflation can lead to what is known as money illusion. That is simply confusing the declining value of currency with a windfall in earnings or tax revenues. Some Nobel Prize-winning research illustrates this concept simply and clearly:
Suppose we all lived on a single island and had a single currency with posted prices for goods and services. We all lived perpetually, and there were no births or deaths, and there was no productivity growth. In that environment, prices and the amount of currency in circulation would never change. Money would simply change hands, at the going price, for all goods and services.
Now suppose someone parachuted money onto the island, instantly doubling the supply of currency. Suddenly, the money available to buy goods and services would double, so nominal demand would also double. But, nothing else on the island changed. There were no more people to make goods or provide services and no productivity enhancing technology. In the simplest model, the result would be a doubling of all prices, and the economy would return to its original condition. The only differences would be that prices and the supply of money would have doubled.
In a more complex model, some goods would be more desirable than others, so demand for them would more than double. Some people would change occupations, and some products would be less desirable. So, prices wouldn’t uniformly double. Also, workers would demand pay increases, and some would get twice their previous earnings, others would get more or less. Some companies might then be more profitable than others, and some workers would be better off, some worse off.
Real world inflation works like this model. Some prices go up more than others, and some workers see better pay increases than others, while some businesses are less profitable, and others more profitable. This sort of variation or stickiness could cause inflation to last longer, but it didn’t cause the inflation, it simply extends the pain.
Money illusion obfuscates the effect of inflation. For example, here in Indiana, the combination of inflation and the real effect of household relocation caused home prices to rise in many places. In turn, the assessed value of those homes rose, as did property tax payments. This has led to a mini-firestorm of anguished taxpayers. But, how bad is it really? Statewide, home price growth has lagged inflation significantly, even in the past 24 months. Today, Hoosiers are paying less of their income in property taxes than at any time in modern history.
Indiana also has tax caps and, more importantly, levy growth caps for local governments. So, even if your property tax assessment rose by 30 percent, with few exceptions you won’t pay more than 1 percent of your property’s value in taxes. More importantly, most Hoosiers won’t see property tax growth of more than 5 percent, which is the maximum levy growth. The result of this arithmetic is that most Indiana property taxpayers will end the next year spending less on property taxes, in inflation-adjusted terms, than they do now and many will face lower tax rates.
The flip side of this is that the cost of government will rise at roughly the cost of inflation. It takes more money to fill a school bus with gas or buy asphalt for roads. The cost of health insurance for police officers will rise, as will all the other inputs to governing. The increase will prove shocking over the coming months.
For example, when Governor Holcomb’s Blue Ribbon Teacher Pay Commission announced a goal of paying teachers an average of $60,000, the value of the dollar was a lot higher. The next budget will probably meet that goal this fall, but in reality that $60,000 pay is today worth less than $51,000. And, unfortunately, inflation is not yet done with us.
Right now, in inflation-adjusted terms, the next biennium budget is larger than the last two budgets. By the middle of next fiscal year, inflation will have reduced the budget to levels lower than the budget passed in 2019, which included the teacher pay increase. Such are the challenges of budgeting during an inflationary period. Most Hoosier teachers will make less by the end of next year than they did in 2019, once we account for inflation.
The effect of money illusion is especially harsh after periods of long-term price stability. Most Americans younger than 60 are so conditioned to large price drops in goods like cell phones, computers or flat screen TVs, that a general price increase is simply unthinkable. Homeowners who are shocked at a 5 percent increase in property taxes make no comparison to the nearly 9 percent cost of living adjustment in Social Security this year.
The coming year should bring inflation back down to targeted levels of 2 percent to 2.5 percent per year. However, prices won’t generally decline. Now would be a good time to get over money illusion and adapt to a new world where prices, along with incomes, are all higher.
Michael J. Hicks, PhD, is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/hicks-money-illusion-and-inflation/70187251007/ | 2023-05-07T19:39:53 | 0 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/hicks-money-illusion-and-inflation/70187251007/ |
Avalon, Margate and Sea Isle City are preparing for nonpartisan municipal elections Tuesday.
Twelve candidates are running for a commissioners or city council seat. Six will run with no opposition — three in Avalon and three in Sea Isle. Margate has six people running for three seats. Only one of them is an incumbent.
Commissioner Maury Blumberg is running with Cathy Horn and Michael Collins as the "Friends of Margate" slate. Challengers Calvin Tesler, Aaron Singer and Patrice "Trish" Calvarese are running as the "Margate Deserves Better" slate.
Mayor Michael Becker and Commissioner John Amodeo both decided not to run for office again this year.
The "Friends of Margate" slate says it will focus on fiscal responsibility, holding down the municipal tax rate, keeping property values high by improving infrastructure and limiting overbuilding.
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Blumberg has served as a commissioner since 2007 and seeks his fifth term on the board. He is the commissioner of revenue and finance for the city. Blumberg is vice president of sales and engineering for Jersey Architectural Door & Supply Inc., on the board for Best of Chai and a former member of the city's Zoning Board.
Horn is president of the Margate Board of Education and a psychologist at Atlantic City High School. She was first appointed to the school board in 2013.
Collins serves on the Margate City Beach Patrol Pension Committee and the board of the Margate Business Association. He is the president of the Margate Republican Club, founder and co-director of the Margate Cornhole League and has served as a member of the Assumption Regional Catholic School board in Galloway Township.
Before Collins took over the family business — Colmar Home Center, Colmar Kitchen Studio, and The UPS Store, which has locations in Margate, North Cape May and Avalon —he worked as an aerospace engineer and received recognition for his work from NASA. He also was an adjunct faculty member at Villanova University in the mechanical engineering department.
The "Margate Deserves Better" team says it will look to address a 46% property tax increase since 2007, preserve the city's residential character, support the area's schools, provide more resources for first responders, mitigate flooding and hotel zoning, and improve the quality of life in the city.
Tesler is a history and writing professor at Rowan University, as well as an adjunct professor at Temple and Stockton universities. He is also the vice president of the Shirat Hayam synagogue in Ventnor, organizes community food drives and volunteers at Seashore Gardens Living Center in Galloway.
Singer has been a certified public accountant for more than 10 years. He was a founding shareholder for Goldberg Boyle and Brogan, the vice president of finance for Brokerage Concepts Inc. for more than 13 years and the chief financial officer of iCueTV and Simple Brands LLC. He also is a founding member of the Rose House in Morris Plains, Morris County, an organization that facilitates independent living for adults who are developmentally disabled.
Calvarese is a health care information technology consultant and former chief information officer and chief security officer for Drexel Med. She volunteers as a patient advocate at a senior living facility and is a member of Holy Trinity Parish.
In Sea Isle City, Mayor Leonard Desiderio and Council members William Kehner Sr. and Frank Edwardi Jr. are running unopposed.
In Avalon, Council members Barbara Juzaitis and Samuel Wieman are running unopposed, while Councilman John McCorristin will run for mayor with no opponent. Current Mayor Martin Pagliughi is retiring after 36 years in local government. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/6-people-running-for-3-seats-in-tuesdays-margate-election-sea-isle-avalon-have-unopposed/article_fc4d1ff6-cf2c-11ed-924e-fb949c2bc829.html | 2023-05-07T19:45:55 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/6-people-running-for-3-seats-in-tuesdays-margate-election-sea-isle-avalon-have-unopposed/article_fc4d1ff6-cf2c-11ed-924e-fb949c2bc829.html |
The SAFE Project was recently awarded a $750 grant for community services. SAFE is an acronym for Safety, Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment. It is a non-profit organization that provides emergency services to women, men, and children throughout the community who have been victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The North Bend City Council annually awards limited funds via grants to community groups and projects. This is done in connection with North Bend’s budget process. The funds are, in essence, state funds the City receives as its portion of the Oregon revenue sharing to cities. Part of the Council’s criteria in considering grant applications is whether a particular community group or project helps cut the need for public assistance or aids one of our municipal departments.
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These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield High School.
1923
Coos Bay myrtle given as souvenirs
1,500 candlesticks ordered for Portland convention
National Business and Professional Women will assemble in July
Delegates to the annual convention of the National Business and Professional Women’s clubs in Portland in July will each e presented with a Coos Bay myrtle wood candlestick as a souvenir of the gathering. This information was contained in a letter from Miss Louise Hacker, chairman of the committee on transportation, to Coos Bay members. She stated that the Oregon committee had placed an order for 1,500 candlesticks. It is understood that Pomeroy, Mehl & Duncan were awarded the contract.
E.D. Duncan said that the myrtle candlesticks had been selected in competition with many other novelties. They will make some fine ones, about eight inches high. On the base of eachwill be pasted a short article telling of the myrtle wood and Coos Bay.
Quite a delegation will go from Marshfield for the gathering. The selection of the Coos Bay myrtle wood as souvenirs will be a great advertisement for this section as the recipients will be from all sections of the United States.
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Two smallpox cases reported
One at Davis slough camp and one at Lakeside
Health officer takes action and precautions to prevent spread of disease
A smallpox patient was taken out of the Davis slough camp on Monday and confined in the pest house at Marshfield by Dr. Dix. Dr. Irwin went up to the camp with Charles Hudson on Tuesday and vaccinated all who were not already protected by having had smallpox or by having had successful vaccination within the last seven years. Four who refused vaccination will remain in camp for eighteen days; the others are now free to go and come.
Dr. Keizer has reported a case of smallpox in Lakeside. The county health officer went up by train to establish quarantine and vaccinate all persons who had been exposed. The school children were to be vaccinated if they had written permission from their parents.
1973
BAHD asks public to help name hospital
Bay Area Hospital District directors okayed a lease-purchase arrangement for hospital equipment Tuesday and called on the public for help in naming the new hospital.
The board authorized execution of a basic lease agreement subject to review of specific conditions by the hospital administrator, board and accountant.
The point has reached in construction where the contractor must know the name to install over the main door, directors were told.
After considerable discussion about names and general agreement that they were not ready to make a final decision now, the board asked the public to suggest names. The decision must be made at the next board meeting, May 8, and “we want public input,” said Dr. Richard West, director.
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Mel Counts’ found home
It looks like Coos Bay’s gypsy professional basketball player has found himself a home finally with the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA.
Mel Counts has had his ups and downs in the pro ranks, but he’s been consistent for the Lakers and coach Bill Sharman appreciates what the big seven-footer has done for him.
Big Mel is a nice guy, whom “everybody likes,” according to Laker publicist Jeff Temkin.
“It’s a real pleasure to work with Mel,” Temkin commented recently. “He’s truly a great person, in my estimation."
Counts was originally drafted by the Boston Celtics after his senior year at Oregon State, where he was an All-American, and there he stayed, mostly on the bench, for several years.
The Celtics then traded Counts, still mostly an unknown entity, to the Baltimore Bullets. Mel stayed there for a couple of years, before he was again traded.
This time, he went to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he had a few shots at playing, but then only as a reserve behind Wilt Chamberlain at center.
In 1969, Mel had his biggest night ever, against Lew Alcindor and company at Milwaukee and the Bay native rose to the occasion scoring 31 points and dragging down 20 rebounds against the highly publicized Alcindor.
In 1970, Counts was traded to Phoenix for Gail Goodrich.
Early in the season this year, Counts was traded by the Suns to Philadelphia, for a draft choice, but the Lakers didn’t like that idea.
Counts came back to the West Coast after only two weeks with the 76ers, in a trade which also netted Bill Bridges for LA.
2003
The college’s caretaker
Friendly faces keep janitor sweeping the floors and mopping the halls
Twenty-eight years ago, custodian Vijay Murhram cleaned his first hallway at Southwestern Oregon Community College.
The campus was a lot smaller in 1975. Southwestern’s Empire, Stensland, Sumner and Eden halls hadn’t been built yet. The student count was only a quarter of today’s 16,000. And Southwestern’s founder, Henry Hansen, was still alive.
Since then, Mukhram has worked under three different college presidents and watched faculty members, custodians and thousands of students come and go.
Through it all, however, Southwestern has retained what keeps Muhkram working night after night: faces both new and familiar, and a quiet place to work.
“I think he’s a pretty great guy,” Southwestern library technician Dawn Jones said. “He’s not seen very much. There’s probably just a core group that know Vijay is around — people that have been around for a while and see him in the evening.”
Muhkram holds in high regard this core group of library workers, custodians, instructors and students who see him cleaning Empire and Tioga halls.
“The teachers are real friendly. The students are real friendly. It works out really good, this shift,” Muhkram said in a thick accent that has remained with him since he emigrated 33 years ago from Fiji to Modesto, Calif., with his mother and three brothers.
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Local team races to relay win
Go Hard or Go Home, a team of runners from Coquille and Myrtle Point, topped the field in the 26th edition of the Roseburg to Coos Bay Relay.
The team, consisting of Ken Young, John Gunther, Rosie Sweetman, Adam Cole and Bruce Kupersmith, completed the 67-mile course on the Coos Bay Wagon Road in 7:52:39. In the closest finish in the last seven years, two teams from Southern Oregon finished within two mintues of the winning time — Beatin’ Cheeks (7:53:43) and 2 Wrights, 3 Wrongs, which set a mixed team (coed) division record with a time of 7:54:44.
Go Hard or Go Home became the first team consisting entirely of South Coast runners to win the event since it was revived seven years ago.
The race took five-member teams from Roseburg to Coos Bay on the Coos Bay Wagon Road, crossing the Coast Range in the process. Each team member ran three legs ranging from 3.3 to 6.2 miles during the event. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/this-week-in-coos-county-history/article_a9d4038e-ecfa-11ed-bb9f-e79909685e06.html | 2023-05-07T19:53:37 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/this-week-in-coos-county-history/article_a9d4038e-ecfa-11ed-bb9f-e79909685e06.html |
Two years ago, turning 68 years old and living in remission from breast cancer, Kathee Sanchez decided it was time to get serious about running.
When Sanchez was undergoing chemoradiation and other treatment for cancer, running gave her something to look forward to and helped her stay positive.
"One day I just asked myself, 'Could I pull off a marathon?'" Sanchez said.
She joined Beginner's Luck — a seven-week running clinic in Lincoln dedicated to helping runners of all ages and backgrounds to incorporate running into their routine while preparing for races.
Sunday afternoon, Sanchez crossed the finish line of the Lincoln Marathon — her third marathon -- with a time of 5:47:07.
"There's a great running community here in Lincoln and they've supported me so much along the way," Sanchez said. "Running is something you can do where you challenge yourself as you go. You don't have to match with anyone and everyone is so encouraging and positive."
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Sanchez has been asked how she has the energy to keep running.
"Why not?" she said. "If I can do it, why not? It helps me enjoy life more and I think it keeps you more positive sometimes, because you're able to appreciate it."
Just finishing the 26.2 miles was her goal, she said.
"I don't always have good days, and you're never always going to have good days, but you're going to have people encouraging you straight through," she said.
That encouragement helped to get her to the finish line, she said.
Between the route's many hills and a 23-degree jump in temperature between the beginning to the end of the race, Sanchez was pushed to her limits.
When she wasn't getting high-fives from children along the track or keeping pace and talking with other runners, Sanchez said she even turned to prayer for help.
"It sounds weird, but when things get tough, I just start saying rosaries," she said. "I say, 'I'm gonna do as many steps as this rosary's gonna take me, and when I'm done with that one I start all over again."
When her pain was its worst, Sanchez said it also helped to give herself some perspective.
"You just say, 'I said I'm gonna do this; I'm gonna do it,'" she said. "(And) you know everyone out there is having a tough time."
And when all else failed, she said, she reminded herself to focus on the positives.
"The thing about runners is, we run toward the pain, not away from it," Sanchez said. "We know it's gonna hurt, but it's so much fun to do it. You feel healthier, you eat better, you sleep better, you just have more energy — it's just well worth the effort." | https://journalstar.com/news/local/70-year-old-runner-beats-cancer-finishes-third-marathon/article_7025857e-eb72-11ed-a88e-e37de11d5d36.html | 2023-05-07T20:08:01 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/70-year-old-runner-beats-cancer-finishes-third-marathon/article_7025857e-eb72-11ed-a88e-e37de11d5d36.html |
MARION COUNTY, Fla. – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday announced its search for a 15-year-old girl who was last seen boarding a school bus in Belleview on Thursday.
Angelina Jordan was last seen getting on the bus at Hands of Mercy Everywhere, Inc., located at 6017 Robinson Road. It was not confirmed at the time of this report whether she attended school that day, and she had last mentioned she was with a friend and would return home Friday, according to a news release.
Jordan reportedly has a history of mental illness and currently is without her medication, deputies said. She possibly has family in Orange County and recently mentioned going there, with the release adding Jordan made contact with a juvenile friend online but has not responded since Friday.
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Jordan is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 127 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair, according to the release.
Anyone with knowledge of Jordan’s whereabouts is urged to contact the sheriff’s office, or Crime Stoppers of Marion County at 352-368-STOP (7867) to stay anonymous.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Dozens of people took part in a walk Sunday morning at Blue Jacket Park in Orlando, hoping to put an end to drunken driving.
The event was hosted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving of Central Florida, or M.A.D.D.
Kristi McElroy helped organize Sunday’s walk. She’s a former Osceola County Sheriff’s Office sergeant and said the number of DUI crashes nationwide has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
“It’s going up 14% in 2020, and 14% again in 2021, so we are over 13,000 people have been killed,” McElroy said. “People are losing their lives on a 100% preventable crime.”
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Marion Areizaga said she misses her 18-year-old daughter, Angelina Anderson, so much.
She took part in this year’s “Walk Like MADD” event at Blue Jacket Park.
Her daughter was killed on Dec. 24, 2021. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Jerrod James was under the influence when he crashed on U.S. 192 and Vineland Road in Osceola County. The crash killed Areizaga’s daughter, Angelina, and another woman.
Troopers later issued an arrest warrant for James, who is still out there at last check.
“You don’t only take their lives, you kill their families too. We’re all broken. We all died that day,” Areizaga said. “Angelina was the baby of eight.”
Areizaga said her daughter had just finished high school. She was in the JROTC, loved to travel and wanted to be a real estate broker.
Her family is calling for justice.
“Nobody is saying ‘Stop, don’t live life,’ but just remember that you can hurt yourself and others, so just don’t do it,” said Anderson’s sister, Desire Lee.
Local law enforcement was also at Sunday’s walk. Many brought out their DUI enforcement units and are hoping for no more victims.
An Osceola County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle was parked at the walk. Investigators said the car was hit by a drunk driver in January while deputies were responding to a call. No one was seriously hurt.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) – The State Street Farmers Market opened for the season in downtown Bristol on Saturday.
Guests were able to pick out produce, seeds, locally raised meat, fresh baked goods and more.
“Local farmers, you know, people come here to sell their things, we’re really popular with farming here in this region,” said Recreation Programmer for Bristol, Jayden Rosenboro.
“So I think it’s good for these local farmers to have a place to come and sell locally, not just the supermarket here,” Rosenboro added.
Starting on July 5, the market will be open on Wednesdays, along with Saturdays, from 2 to 6 p.m. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/state-street-farmers-market-opens-in-bristol/ | 2023-05-07T20:10:31 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/state-street-farmers-market-opens-in-bristol/ |
WATERLOO — The 40th annual graduate fellowships granted by the R.J. McElroy Trust were awarded to graduating seniors at Cornell College and Wartburg College.
The fellowships, which carry a stipend of $36,000 paid over three years, were awarded to Gwen Paule of Cornell College and Andrew Buchheim of Wartburg College. They were selected from a field of finalists from colleges and universities in Northeast Iowa.
The fellowships, established by the McElroy trustees in 1983, are designed to “encourage a person of accomplishment, intelligence, integrity, and leadership ability to pursue challenging academic careers.” Based upon satisfactory progress toward a doctorate degree, the annual stipend of $12,000 may be renewed for two additional years.
In making the nominations, Jonathan Brand of Cornell and Rebecca Neiduski, Wartburg’s president, praised the academic and leadership accomplishments of the two students. Paule will pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. Buchheim will pursue a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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The McElroy Fellowships were established to support students seeking higher education in a non-professional degree area. The trust is designed to benefit “deserving young people.”
The trust’s benefactor, R. J. McElroy, was a pioneer broadcaster who started the Black Hawk Broadcasting Company in 1947. He died in 1965. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/36-000-graduate-fellowship-awarded/article_5a3bf4ed-289f-5662-a471-b8f29abd7bbb.html | 2023-05-07T20:14:16 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/36-000-graduate-fellowship-awarded/article_5a3bf4ed-289f-5662-a471-b8f29abd7bbb.html |
The Tucson Mountains have served as a destination for mine exploration for centuries, but with minimal commercial profit.
The range hosts one of the earliest mining districts in Arizona, out of 246, known as the Amole district. Early prospectors included the Hohokam tribe 1,000 years ago, and later the Spanish, who explored the area in earnest for gold and silver around the time San Xavier Mission was founded in 1692.
Mining conducted in the 19th and 20th centuries by Mexican and Anglo miners saw limited financial success compared to improved prospects in the neighboring mountain ranges, including the Santa Catalinas and the Santa Ritas.
Transportation also proved challenging to early mining activities in Southern Arizona, with reliance on local stagecoach stops for transport and sustenance to traveling miners. Examples near Tucson included the Dragoon Stage Stop in the Dragoon Mountains, the Pantano Stage Stop near the Cienega Creek Railroad Bridge near the Rincon Mountains, and the Pointer Mountain Stage Stop in the northern Tucson Mountains.
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Mining in the region increased across the Tucson valley to the east in the Santa Catalina Mountains in the 1880s, where prospectors explored the area based upon gold discoveries in the Cañada del Oro, also known as the Canyon of Gold.
A major gold rush followed to capitalize on the free-flowing gold found embedded in quartz veins down the north slopes of Mt. Lemmon toward the town of Oracle. The area's Burney Mines were named after Bob Burney, who owned a 60-ton selective flotation mill near Oracle that processed local ores, including those from the nearby Childs-Aldwinkle Mine at Copper Creek in the Santa Teresa Mountains.
This area consists of altered metasediment/porphyry breccias that include gold, lead, zinc and silver along with areas of oxide copper mineralization. A 1980s study conducted by Cambior Exploration Inc. noted low-grade silver mineralization at .5 to 1 ounce per ton.
Collapsed volcano
Geology of the Tucson Mountains includes its history as a volcanic caldera, or collapsed volcano, last active during the Laramide Orogeny 70 million years ago. Low-grade mineralized deposits formed in geologic formations such as stocks, plugs and dikes resulting from igneous intrusions (igneous rock crystallized from molten magma).
More than 15 miles long, this large ash-flow caldera is overlain by mid-tertiary basaltic andesite lavas on parts including those of Sentinel Peak, also known as “A" Mountain,” and Tumamoc Hill.
Both hills served as mine sites for the Hohokam settlers, who used the talus boulders to build agricultural terraces in the surrounding area a thousand years ago.
Mexican settlers quarried the basaltic andesite and rhyolite tuff in the 19th century, using it for foundations seen today in the earliest homes built in Tucson.
Additional areas that proved somewhat profitable in commercial mining ventures in the Tucson Mountains include the Saginaw Hill area in the south, the Gould and Mile Wide Mines in the central portion and the Old Yuma Mine in the north.
The Saginaw Hill Mine, named for financial investors from Saginaw, Michigan, is located on the southwest flank of the Tucson Mountains. Geologically it is a fissure deposit in rhyolite porphyry.
Originally located by Tucson entrepreneur Sam Hughes and christened the Sam Hughes Gold Mine, it was also known among the Mexicans as “Mina del Aguila” or Mine of the Eagle. Water was supplied by a five-mile pipeline from a well near the Santa Cruz River. Small amounts of placer gold were discovered among arroyos west and south of Saginaw Hill.
The property included a small Huntington Grinding and Amalgamating mill along with a Frue Vanner concentrating table, whose concentrates were shipped to the Thomas Hughes “Adobe Mexican Smelter” near the present junction of Mission and Irvington roads.
'Rusty gold'
The gold is described as having a coating of iron oxide; such “rusty gold” is difficult to recover through amalgamation. High zinc content proved challenging to the table concentrates, ensuring a challenging and less profitable smelting process.
In 1914, renowned geologist Ira Joralemon invested in the property, developing 10 million tons of copper ore including chalcocite and chalcopyrite. The mine circulated through many owners. High-grade silica copper ore was shipped from the mine to the Hayden smelter in 1958. The tailings were mined in the late 1980s with several shipments sent to the Arivaca Mill for gold extraction.
Some ideas to economically exploit the mineral resource included detonation of explosives onsite and having the copper leached in place afterwards. Further exploration may yield mineable resources under positive market conditions; however, encroaching development has hindered such prospects.
Additional mining operations in the Tucson Mountains included the Gould Mine south of King Canyon. The geology is made up of fragments from a lahar, or volcanic mudslide, originating from the Tucson Mountains stratovolcano. Sporadic and sensationalized production occurred from 1906 to 1954, with around 45,000 pounds of copper produced.
The nearby Mile Wide Mine was christened such by the width of the entire claim. Originally known as the King Canyon Mine, it produced 34,000 tons including copper, gold, lead, molybdenum and zinc during both World Wars.
Lava flows
Other lava flows can be found throughout the Tucson Mountains, including those exposed at Tumamoc Hill and Sentinel Peak. These flows are composed of vesicular basaltic andesite with olivine inclusions that were mined for building stone in Tucson, still found in early home and business construction.
The Old Yuma Mine was the largest metal producer in the Amole district with recorded figures of silver, lead, copper and molybdenum, along with gold and vanadium. Located by C.C. Stephens in 1885, the Old Yuma Mine including the Comet lode mining claims saw major development by its owners, Tucson lawyers John H. Martin and William H. Barnes, during World War One.
Colonel Epes Randolph also operated under government subsidy, producing molybdenum and vanadium for the war-time market.
A gravity jig mill used to concentrate wulfenite and vanadinite produced over 30,000 tons with concentrate shipped to the El Paso smelter for further refinement.
Limited production continued under the Yuma Mining Co. in the 1930s through 1954. The mine also hosted a placer deposit containing significant gold values acquired through leaching and crushing of the host rock.
The mine is notable for some of the finest samples of wulfenite and vanadinite in the world.
Industrial minerals
Large-scale residential development and environmental concerns have ended mine development and production in the Tucson Mountains during recent decades with the exception of the active Portland Cement Co. at Twin Peaks.
Industrial minerals have been the most lucrative production in the history of the Amole district. Cal-Portland’s Portland Cement Plant was the first cement plant established in Arizona, built at Rillito in 1949 at a cost of $3 million on 200 acres of land. Located 17 miles northwest of Tucson, it supplies Tucson and south Phoenix with cement acquired from the limestone deposits at Twin Peaks, also known as Picacho de Calera.
Overall mineral production estimates in the Amole district totaled 34,000 short tons of ore including 529,000 pounds of copper, 670,000 pounds of lead, 375,000 pounds of zinc, 17 tons of molybdenum, 27,200 ounces of silver and 1,010 ounces of gold.
William Ascarza is an archivist, historian and author of seven books available for purchase online and at select bookstores. These include his latest, “In Search of Fortunes: A Look at the History of Arizona Mining,” available through M.T. Publishing Co. Email Ascarza for a signed copy of his publications at AZMiningHistory@gmail.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/history/mine-tales-tucson-mountains-mined-since-hohokam-days/article_84ebc110-e46c-11ed-bf4e-8f083e65b2cf.html | 2023-05-07T20:19:20 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/history/mine-tales-tucson-mountains-mined-since-hohokam-days/article_84ebc110-e46c-11ed-bf4e-8f083e65b2cf.html |
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Originally published May 4 on IdahoEdNews.org.On May 13, graduates, friends and family will stream into the University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome for spring commencement.
The ceremony concludes another academic year — and frames this particular year in stark context. Commencement will come six months to the day after Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were found slain in an off-campus house.
The brutal stabbing deaths of the four U of I students thrust a remote and laid-back college town into a harsh global spotlight. Classmates mourned, and many frightened students fled the campus mid-semester. As police investigated the crime, administrators searched for ways to support students and sustain learning.
Nearly six months later, an academic year is ending, but the healing process is ongoing.
FALL 2022: BEFORE AND AFTER NOV. 13
Before Nov. 13, the U of I was in the middle of a resurgent fall semester.
In August, 1,951 first-year students converged on campus. This largest freshman class in school history drove an overall 1.8% enrollment increase, bringing student numbers more or less in line with pre-pandemic levels.
The U of I secured $55 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study climate-friendly farming and ranching practices — the largest grant in school history.
After several seasons of struggles, an emergent Vandal football team suddenly found itself contending for a spot in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. (The U of I ultimately secured a playoff berth, losing in the first round of the postseason.)
The early morning hours of Nov. 13, a Sunday, fell in the middle of what would have normally been a festive football weekend in Moscow. The news of the murders moved quickly, and overshadowed all things normal about school operations and campus life. It became the semester’s narrative, the community’s tragedy, the university’s crisis.
And it left Natalia Zieroth-Chaumont torn.
Zieroth-Chaumont knew Goncalves fairly well; they were sisters in the same sorority. But Zieroth-Chaumont had to compartmentalize her personal feelings. As a residential advisor in a freshman dorm, she had to try to help a floor of first-year students process their own shock and sense of loss.
She stayed through the semester, but had no other choice. “There were a lot of girls that didn’t come back after Thanksgiving.”
It’s unclear how many students left campus early, before the Thanksgiving break that began a week after the slayings. Nor is it clear how many students finished the fall semester at home, studying remotely, as the murder investigation began and public statements were sparse and sometimes contradictory.
Professors pivoted back to virtual instruction methods adopted during the pandemic. Lesson plans changed as well. In Tanner McClain’s literature class, the professor quickly scrubbed a dark segment on English tragedy, subbing the more lighthearted “Don Quixote” into the syllabus. The move symbolized the faculty’s response, said McClain, president of the Associated Students of the U of I.
“(They’ve) been nothing but understanding of this terrible experience,” McClain, of Middleton, said in an interview this week.
The students who did complete the semester on campus encountered a surge in security, including a presence of Idaho State Police troopers deployed from across the state. They also faced a gauntlet of local and national news crews. They balanced studies against grieving, as more than 1,000 people attended a Nov. 30 candlelight vigil at the Kibbie Dome — where the Vandal football team played its final home game of the season on Nov. 12, just hours before the murders.
A senseless crime scene had reshaped the U of I campus, as a global health crisis had reshaped it in the spring of 2020.
“I like to say that we’ve really had two COVIDs, in a way,” said Matty Murphy of Boise, a graduating senior in international studies and history.
Murphy and McClain were among several U of I students who spoke during a panel discussion at the State Board of Education’s April meeting in Moscow — reflecting on their college experience, but also on their turbulent 2022-23 school year.
They described an ongoing process, from fall through spring, of leaning on friends to make sense of what they were experiencing. “Talking it out with each other is really how we heal,” McClain told the board.
JAN. 11: THE START OF SPRING SEMESTER
Before spring semester began, the murder case took an abrupt turn. On Dec. 30, police arrested Bryan Kohberger, a Washington State University graduate student, at a family home in Pennsylvania’s Pocono mountain region.
The arrest came 47 days after the slayings — and just 12 days before the first spring classes.
“This is the news that we have been waiting for,” U of I President C. Scott Green said that afternoon, in his weekly Friday memo to students and staff.
Paul Gillespie, a sophomore, stayed through the end of fall semester and returned in January. While he credits Green and Moscow police for doing their best to communicate with the community, he also says the arrest changed the mood of the campus.
“Classes started off in a much better position,” he said in an email to Idaho Education News. “There is no doubt that the arrest greatly helped reassure people.”
But as students returned, the news crews were already encamped in Moscow — chronicling the start of the semester, but also the first steps in the legal process.
On Jan. 12, as the second day of spring classes began on campus, Kohberger briefly appeared in the Latah County Courthouse. At the end of the hearing, Kohberger’s preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 26.
With that, the national crews began dispersing from Moscow, at least until summer. A midsemester court hearing, and the inevitable media coverage, would have been a “difficult distraction” for the U of I community, Provost Torrey Lawrence said. When the criminal case picks up again, most students will be off-campus for summer break.
“It’s kind a of a welcome pause in this (legal) process,” Lawrence said in an interview Wednesday.
JAN. 27: AN EMOTIONAL BUDGET PITCH
As students began easing back into campus routines, Green found himself in a familiar environment: the Statehouse. But here too, the events of Nov. 13 hung overhead.
On Jan. 27, Green made his annual budget pitch to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. For 30 minutes, he worked methodically through a PowerPoint and clicked through the U of I’s talking points, such as the enrollment surge and the $55 million U.S. Department of Agriculture research grant.
And then, for about a minute, emotions broke through. Fighting back tears, Green thanked the ISP troopers who converged on the campus after Nov. 13; “They were our heroes.” He also thanked Gov. Brad Little for requesting $1 million to help offset the U of I’s unexpected costs, such as the ISP patrols and expanded student counseling. He struggled to talk about the murder victims, the slayings, and the healing process within “our Vandal family.”
Moments later, Green apologized to lawmakers for his “moment.” He appeared visibly relieved as lawmakers launched into a question-and-answer session on other topics. And as Green deflected a pointed question on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he appeared back in his public policy comfort zone.
By March, legislators approved the $1 million budget bill — over the objections of some conservative lawmakers, largely from North Idaho.
THE UNIVERSITY’S APPROACH — AND THE STUDENT RESPONSE
For the spring, the U of I deployed an “all-of-the-above” approach to student safety and welfare. Walk-in counseling at the Student Union Building. Self-defense classes. An enhanced on-campus security presence, even as most of the ISP troopers returned to their hometowns. She’s Birdies — small alarms designed to fit on a keychain — distributed on Greek row and in the dorms.
State dollars covered much of the response. Alumni donations covered the She’s Birdies. It was a conscious, cumulative effort to act quickly.
“I think it was kind of the sum total that added up, to help students feel better,” Lawrence said.
The added security made a difference, Zieroth-Chaumont said. Even with a suspect in custody, the murders left students rethinking their risks.
“Even super safe places still have their dangers,” she said in an interview last week. “It definitely opened people’s eyes to real life.”
The beginning of spring semester felt a little on edge, Gillespie said, but a sense of normalcy has returned.
“The campus definitely feels just as safe as it did before the murders,” he said. “In fact, I see people walking and jogging at night on campus again and the atmosphere of worry and concern is gone. I remember how empty the campus felt near the end of the fall semester, while now it feels bright and full of life again.”
And while students might have been on added alert this spring, they also stayed in school. The fall’s enrollment surge held into spring — which was, given the circumstances, “pretty amazing,” Lawrence said.
All told, the U of I’s spring enrollment came in at 9,375, up 2.1% from the previous spring.
Still, returning is one thing. Returning to pre-Nov. 13 life is another, more elusive matter, Natalie Suaste of Jerome told State Board members in April.
“I just feel like everybody’s healing at different times, in different ways,” said Suaste, a psychology and philosophy major and a director of diversity and inclusion for the Associated Students of the U of I. “There’s no going back to normal.”
MAY 13: COMMENCEMENT, CLOSURE, REMEMBRANCE
Zieroth-Chaumont will be among the seniors walking in May 13’s commencement ceremony. Her academic career isn’t over. A student in the U of I’s PGA program, which prepares graduates to work as golf professionals, she will leave Moscow in May for a seven-month internship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the nation’s oldest country club.
Spring semester, she said, has provided a chance to enjoy her final months on campus, and wrap up a college experience interrupted by the pandemic. And she credits the U of I administration for helping the community regroup after the murders: “I don’t think they could have done it any better.”
At commencement, the U of I will also honor the murder victims.
Goncalves and Mogen, who were seniors, will be awarded degrees posthumously. The U of I will award certificates posthumously to Kernodle, who was a junior, and Chapin, who was a freshman.
Lawrence acknowledges that the U of I is looking for a difficult balance — honoring all the graduates who have completed their education, while paying tribute to the victims.
“That’ll re-stir some of the emotions around this,” he said, “but we feel it is the right thing to do.”
AUG. 21: THE FIRST DAY OF FALL SEMESTER 2023
A new academic year is never that far away.
In less than four months, the U of I will resume fall classes for returning students — and open its doors to the next freshman class.
The early signs are promising, Lawrence said. So far, applications and admissions are ahead of pace from 2022. The next few months will determine whether acceptance letters translate into another record freshman class.
The next few months will be busy on other fronts.
- The U of I is planning a healing garden and memorial on campus — intended to honor the four murder victims, and provide a place to reflect on any student who passes away. “We don’t really have a central place on campus for that,” Lawrence said. The design is still in the works, and will be student-driven. No location has been set. The U of I has received more than $200,000 for the memorial, but fundraising will step up after the design work is completed.
- The U of I will demolish the off-campus house where the students were murdered, after the owner donated the property. The university is weighing options for the site.
- Campus security will get another look — to decide what protocols to use in the future. The U of I happened to be in the midst of a routine review of its safety protocols before Nov. 13. That process was immediately put on hold, Lawrence said, as the university tried to respond swiftly to the crisis at hand.
McClain will be among the returning students as he continues to pursue a double major in political science and philosophy. He will also be returning for a second year as ASUI president.
McClain praises U of I administration — particularly Green, a U of I alum who returned to head his alma mater in 2019 — and says the university handled the tragedy well and were “very open” to listening to student leaders. Hopeful for next year, McClain now wants to get back to the goal that made him run for president in the first place: restoring campus events, in the aftermath of COVID.
He’s hoping for new gathering places for a new school year. “(We) want to make the campus lively once more.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/the-university-of-idaho-comes-to-the-close-of-a-tragic-turbulent-school-year/article_6874b326-eb91-11ed-8d3b-cbb3b31471e5.html | 2023-05-07T20:45:20 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/the-university-of-idaho-comes-to-the-close-of-a-tragic-turbulent-school-year/article_6874b326-eb91-11ed-8d3b-cbb3b31471e5.html |
WACO, Texas — One person is dead after being struck by a semi-trailer along I-35, according to the Waco Police Department.
Police say a pedestrian was hit and killed in the 1600 block of Northbound I-35 early in the morning of May 7.
The crash reportedly caused I-35 to be shut down for several hours while first responders cleared the scene. Police say I-35 has since been reopened.
The scene has been cleared and the victim's next of kin has been notified, according to Waco PD, but the name of the victim has not been publicly released at this time.
Waco PD says there are no criminal charges in the crash as of now.
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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY — Anne Arundel County Police arrested a Maryland State trooper early Sunday morning.
Trooper First Class Ryan Bandy is currently charged with false imprisonment, second degree assault, and fourth degree sex offense.
He appeared before a district court commissioner and was released on his own recognizance.
Bandy was suspended without pay. He's been a member of the Maryland State Police for nine years.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/maryland-state-trooper-suspended-without-pay-amid-sex-offense-allegations | 2023-05-07T20:55:11 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/maryland-state-trooper-suspended-without-pay-amid-sex-offense-allegations |
BLOOMINGTON — Four years can go by fast.
Burke Nihill, Illinois Wesleyan University alumnus of the Class of 2000, said Sunday in his opening speech to graduating Titans that his four years on the Bloomington campus did go by fast.
Nihill was the keynote speaker at the university’s 173rd commencement ceremony that day, and prepared a speech titled “Writing the Rest of your Story.”
Reflecting on his time at IWU, Nihill also spoke about switching from a pre-dental path to a business administration major, meeting his wife Holly, and once idealizing owning a bar he might call “Tequila Mockingbird.”
He also shared three lessons with around 340 students who walked and were honored at the ceremony, plus over 3,000 attendees packed into the Shirk Center on a warm spring day.
The first: “Make some light bulbs.” While working as general counsel for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans in Nashville, he said he spearheaded a successful bid for the team to host the 2019 NFL draft. He is now the team’s president and CEO.
The second lesson: “Write your story in your own handwriting.”
And the third: “There is no ‘some day’ … time flies.”
More than a degree
Mishwa Bhavsar, the 2023 class president, gave remarks at the ceremony. While on her college journey, she said she and other students learned how to fight their own battles, learn their own lessons and build their own careers
She also asked students to take a moment to be grateful for the people who made their college experience “more than studying for a degree.”
“Let's think about the professors who inspired us, the friends who took care of you while you were drunk," Bhavsar said, “and ‘Mamacita,'” referring to Elizabeth Maldonado, who swipes students' cards in the Bertholf Commons dining hall. Bhavsar said Maldonado helped students make campus feel like home, as students responded with cheers.
Sugar Grove’s Adriana C. Mazzocchi, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, also credited faculty and staff for their support. She told The Pantagraph it took a lot of hard work and dedication to make it to Sunday.
“The community here is just .. it’s unmatchable,” said Mazzocchi.
Her favorite club on campus was the Student Nurses Association, which offered a space she said her fellow students could get together and discuss how they could be the best future nurses possible.
Mazzocchi said she plans to stay in the Twin Cities and work at Carle BroMenn Medical Center on the labor and delivery floor.
In the audience was Kristen Washington, who came from the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, Louisiana, to celebrate her youngest son, Ronnie “Pup” Washington, graduate with a physics degree. Kristen Washington was joined by seven relatives Sunday.
The proud mother said she was excited to be there. Considering Ronnie worked as a student manager for IWU radio station WESN 88.1, she agreed that the school provided her son a well-rounded education.
Washington said Pup plans to seek further education in teaching.
“He just been self-driven … he’s very humble, a very well-rounded young man,” she said. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/unmatchable-community-illinois-wesleyan-grads-revel-for-commencement/article_db58b652-ed09-11ed-9093-2f92a2633147.html | 2023-05-07T21:00:34 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/unmatchable-community-illinois-wesleyan-grads-revel-for-commencement/article_db58b652-ed09-11ed-9093-2f92a2633147.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — May is National Water Safety Month, and with summer quickly approaching, officials say now is the time to educate Austin-area families on the importance of drowning prevention. Drowning is the number one cause of death for children under the age of 4 and the second leading cause for children up to 14.
Aqua-Tots Swim Schools offers swimming instruction across Central Texas. Karin Chobin, chief operating officer at Aqua-Tots, said it's important for adults with kids to follow the ABCs of water safety. The simple, three-step approach shows families how to stay safe and prevent tragedies this summer:
- Adult supervision: It is vital that parents stay within an arm’s reach of non-swimmers. Additionally, they must remain focused on older swimmers and avoid distractions such as phones, reading materials and friends.
- Barriers: Backyard pools should have enclosed fencing with self-latching gates and locks. Additionally, families should put away pool toys when no longer in use to ensure that small children don’t reach for them and fall in. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 69% of children younger than 5 were not expected to be at or in the pool at the time of a drowning incident.
- Classes: Children as young as 4 months old can be enrolled in a consistent, year-round swim program until they become safe and confident swimmers. In fact, participation in formal swim lessons can reduce the risk of drowning by 88% among children 1 to 4 years old, according to the National Institutes of Health.
"We start at 4 months of age, and we really recommend starting them soon so they will begin learning all of the skills they need to not only have a lifelong love of swimming, but also become water safe, learn the skills they're going to need to be able to save themselves should they fall and accidentally," said Chobin.
When it comes to summer parties and gatherings, Chobin says hiring water watchers or assigning an adult specifically that's in charge of watching the pool is important tip.
"At a party, you get distracted and you might not notice. That's a really common thing that could happen. The other thing is a lot of incidents even in Texas, we're not in a pool or a lake. It was in a bathroom. So the emphasis on the undistracted supervision – don't leave the room, put the phone down and making sure you're focused when they're in those bodies of water," said Chobin.
For those interested in signing their kids up for swim lessons, Chobin said at Aqua-Tots they try to make the experience inviting. The water is 90 degrees year-round, and the parents are in a climate-controlled area where they can watch and view their children's lessons.
"Our instructors are fun. Our curriculum is incredible. We've been doing it since 1991 and it's a great environment for the kids to learn how to swim," said Chobin.
Aqua-Tots Swim Schools program includes the highly sought after Parent & Tot (4 to 30 months old) swim classes, group swim lessons for independent children, convenient schedules and flexible make-up lessons.
"There's a tip for parents to help avoid kids getting into pool areas or going swimming without their knowledge. That's always making a routine around swim safety – so requiring that they wear a bathing suit when they go swimming and then keep those bathing suits on a high shelf where their parents have to be involved to get them in the pool. That way, you know, maybe you're doing something – you're working, you're on a call – and the child comes out, 'Mom, I need help getting my bathing suit.' That's going to be a reminder that they want to go swimming," said Chobin.
Families are encouraged to enroll before classes fill up for summer at the nearest Aqua-Tots. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/water-safety-tips/269-def05457-c157-45bb-b5ad-a89c51d7dad2 | 2023-05-07T21:14:44 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/water-safety-tips/269-def05457-c157-45bb-b5ad-a89c51d7dad2 |
ATLANTA — An investigation is underway after an infant died Sunday, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
Authorities said it happened at 1783 Johnson Rd., which is the address for the Columbia Gove- West Midtown Atlanta Apartments. When officers arrived, APD said officers found the infant unresponsive. The infant was taken to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead, APD said.
Investigators are still working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.
"The cause and manner of death will be determined by autopsy," Atlanta Police said.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
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ATLANTA — It's a mile-long corridor full of businesses and homes. An overhaul, which kicked off this month, looks to make Juniper Street easier and safer for drivers, walkers, and bikers once the project is completed.
“When change comes it… it means more people different businesses, culturally. I’m excited for it," said Charles Kollock.
Kollock works for Henry’s on the corner of Juniper and 10th. The restaurant is pretty busy, but Kollock expects more people to try out the place after the upgrades to Juniper Street are done.
“They are still developing over here, and I’ve seen buildings just popping up everywhere so that means more people are moving to the city," said Kollock.
Daniel Montgomery frequents the area.
He understands the need for the street improvements because he said it’s always bustling around here.
“Right here is one of my favorite places to go to. It’s really nice. Just the vibe. It’s a little opulent in the particular area. I can’t speak for if you walk down a couple blocks… from here. But right here, it feels like money," said Montgomery.
The project will focus on 12 blocks between 14th and Ponce De Leon.
It includes protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks and motor vehicle lanes. There will also be new lighting, trees and trash bins.
Officials said the project will take about 20 months to complete. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/midtown/juniper-street-project-midtown-atlanta/85-644b1986-90ba-484b-9cda-8df63371522e | 2023-05-07T21:25:20 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/midtown/juniper-street-project-midtown-atlanta/85-644b1986-90ba-484b-9cda-8df63371522e |
COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — Collin County's mental health authorities are providing a safe space for any resident who has been impacted by the mass shooting in Allen.
LifePath Systems shared on social media that it is offering free counseling to the Collin County community. Anyone who would like to speak to a counselor can either call 972-422-5939 or go to the LifePath Systems website.
The team also says that they're working with local and state officials to provide free emotional support, trauma response and services from licensed clinicians to help anyone affected by the shooting.
"We grieve with the families affected by this senseless act of violence and the entire Allen community," the team wrote on social media.
What do we know about the Allen shooting?
Nine people died, including the suspect, in a shooting at an Allen outlet mall Saturday afternoon, and President Joe Biden confirmed the victims who died included children, though he did not specify how many.
Several law enforcement agencies responded to the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday.
Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd confirmed the deaths in a news conference Saturday night and that seven people were still being treated in area hospitals.
The victims' names have not been released. The suspected shooter was identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, according to law enforcement sources.
Biden's statement also said the suspect was "in tactical gear armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon" as he shot people at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
"Eight Americans — including children — were killed yesterday in the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation," Biden said. "Jill and I are praying for their families and for others critically injured, and we are grateful to the first responders who acted quickly and courageously to save lives."
More coverage of the Allen mall shooting: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-free-counseling-mental-health-help-assistance/287-9e9c0fb6-0119-401c-8241-585c1512e25d | 2023-05-07T21:29:16 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-free-counseling-mental-health-help-assistance/287-9e9c0fb6-0119-401c-8241-585c1512e25d |
ALLEN, Texas — WARNING: The details below contain graphic content that some viewers may find disturbing.
Steven Spainhouer was in McKinney on Saturday afternoon when he received a call from his son, who was working at the H&M store at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
They were locked in a breakroom at work, Spainhouer's son told him, and gunshots were being fired.
Spainhouer, who said he's a former police officer, rushed to the outlet mall and saw people running down the service road as he approached. When he pulled into the parking lot, there was no one.
So he drove toward the H&M - "which in hindsight, was not the smartest thing to do," Spainhouer told WFAA - and saw the scene of the shooting: A store window was shot out, seven people were on the ground wounded, and several people were standing in the area, filming the aftermath on their phones.
"If you're not going to help, stop filming, just leave," Spainhouer said he told the bystanders.
Spainhouer said he went to a victim who was crouched in the bushes and covering her head. He felt for a pulse and didn't feel one. When Spainhouer turned her head, "she had no face," he said.
"She was gone," he said.
He then tried to perform a chest compression on another victim who was coughing and moaning, he said. But the victim died.
Spainhouer then saw a four-year-old who was beneath a victim. He pulled the boy out, as the boy told him his mother was hurt. Spainhouer then saw a police officer, who got the boy to an ambulance to a hospital.
As police arrived and cleared the stores, Spainhouer was reunited with his son.
"Seeing my son come out with his hands up is a relief but having him walk past bodies I had to cover with sheets was not something any parent should have to face," Spainhouer said. "I'm glad he's OK."
Spainhouer said he was heartbroken Saturday night.
"Today, I'm mad," he told WFAA on Sunday. "I understand mental health. But mental health didn't fire that gun. That gun was available to somebody who didn't have to have it."
What do we know about the Allen shooting?
Nine people died, including the suspect, in a shooting at an Allen outlet mall Saturday afternoon, and President Joe Biden confirmed the victims who died included children, though he did not specify how many.
Several law enforcement agencies responded to the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday.
Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd confirmed in a news conference Saturday night that nine people died, including the shooter, and seven people were still being treated in area hospitals.
The victims' names have not been released. The suspected shooter was identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, according to law enforcement sources.
President Biden in a lengthy statement Sunday morning said the eight victims who were killed included "children," though he did not specify how many.
Biden's statement also said the suspect was "in tactical gear armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon" as he shot people at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
"Eight Americans — including children — were killed yesterday in the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation," Biden said. "Jill and I are praying for their families and for others critically injured, and we are grateful to the first responders who acted quickly and courageously to save lives."
More coverage of the Allen mall shooting: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-witness-account-steve-spainhouer/287-f77e357e-33eb-4f82-8fd6-5ac227d43d2d | 2023-05-07T21:29:22 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-witness-account-steve-spainhouer/287-f77e357e-33eb-4f82-8fd6-5ac227d43d2d |
Henrico County police are looking for a motorist involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in Tuckahoe on Saturday.
The man was found at Three Chopt and Santa Rosa roads at 8:30 p.m. with life-threatening injuries, police said in a statement Sunday. He died at a hospital. Police are waiting to release the man's name until next of kin are notified.
The driver was gone when authorities arrived, police said. A description of the vehicle was not available on Sunday.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (804) 501-5000 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.
From the Archives: Richmond buildings that are no longer around
This January 1946 image shows Forest Lodge, completed in the early 1880s by Confederate Army scout John Cussons. The six-story resort hotel stood on 1,000 acres in Glen Allen on Mountain Road and boasted more than 100 rooms. It never became the success that Cussons envisioned, and after changing hands and purposes several times, it was razed in 1992. The cupola was saved and can be seen at Mountain Road and Old Washington Highway.
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Shown in December 1957, this building at 1600 Chamberlayne Parkway and several others behind it - the former plant of Valentine's Meat-Juice Co. - were slated to be torn down after being sold to the Noland Co. Valentine's Meat-Juice was marketed as a tonic, used for such maladies as cholera and typhoid. It gained attention after Mann S. Valentine Jr. created it in order to cure his wife, Ann Maria Gray Valentine, from wasting away in 1870.
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In September 1961, about 25 alumni of Richmond’s old John Marshall High School demonstrated against a plan to demolish the building. After protesting there, the group went to City Hall to discuss the matter with City Council. Despite their efforts, the high school was razed that fall.
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In April 1982, preparations for construction of the Richmond Convention Center were underway along East Broad Street downtown. Among businesses that were torn down to accommodate the new facility were Swatty’s Men’s Shop and the Greyhound bus station.
Lindy Keast Rodman
This January 1953 image shows houses on Belvidere Street in Richmond, as seen near Rowe Street, which were to be taken by the city for a proposed war memorial. The row formed the western boundary of a block that city officials were preparing to acquire. The Virginia War Memorial was dedicated in February 1956.
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This May 1953 image shows the First Market building, which was razed in 1961. This site now houses the 17th Street Farmers Market, but its history as a public gathering place and market dates to the 1700s. Over time, it hosted Confederate soldiers, Union troops, political speeches, a police station and religious revival meetings in addition to farmers’ wares.
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This October 1948 image shows the northeast corner of Third and Franklin streets downtown, where demolition soon made way for the new Times-Dispatch mechanical plant that opened in 1950. In the late 1990s, the site was fully renovated, and The Times-Dispatch building, which had fronted Grace Street, was given its current address of 300 E. Franklin St. 10-1-1948: Building at Third and Franklin to be razed for newspaper mechanical plant. ORG XMIT: RIC1311011539563729
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The Azalea Mall in 1970.
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03-22-1962 (cutline): These buildings will be razed for construction of modern ones. Latest in downtown improvement plans announced today.
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03-26-1959 (cutline): Home of Maj. Myers, 515 W. Franklin St., before it was razed.
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09-15-1959 (cutline): These buildings, in the Pearsall block, bounded by Ninth, Clay, 10th and Leigh Streets, are being torn down to make way for the new Richmond Department of Public Safety Building, the first unit of the Civic Center. The M&M Wrecking Co. has contracted with the city to demolish the buildings and remove all combustible materials by December in return for such materials as it can salvage. When the property is cleared, the city will decide on further use of the area pending construction of the new building. One possible use; parking.
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Published Caption Richmond News Leader: Down She Goes - With the rest of the church already knocked down, workmen began yesterday demolishing the Gothic tower of the former All Saints Episcopal Church building in the 300 block West Franklin St. An apartment building is planned for the site, where the church stood for 60 years. Published Caption Richmond News Leader 2-21-91: The All Saints Episcopal Church building at 316 W Franklin St was sold for $85,000. The tower was the last part demolished.
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In May 1977, this 150-foot smokestack came down. The smokestack stood behind what used to be Broad Street Station in Richmond; the demolition was part of a contract with the state for removal of the stack and several buildings in the area.
Don Pennell
This October 1964 image shows a set of buildings at the corner of 13th and Main streets in Richmond that were due to be demolished to make way for a parking lot. The lot, which was scheduled to be completed in February, was designed to handle about 40 cars.
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11-29-1963 (cutline): Downtown traffic--Both pedestrian and vehicular--is heavy despite rainy skies. Pace picked up as rain slackened on traditional first day of Christmas shopping. The Atlantic Life and May Co. building were demolished in the early 2000s.
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June 21, 1963 (Photograher Carl Lynn) (cutline) "These houses in the 800 block of West Grace St. are to be razed for a high-rise apartment building in Richmond Va.
In October 1961, a crane swung a wrecking ball against the portico of the old John Marshall High School in downtown Richmond as a nostalgic crowd watched. The building was being razed to make way for development of the new Civic Center; the new high school opened in North Side the previous year.
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In May 1954, buildings in the 500 block of Marshall Street in Richmond were soon to be razed to make way for additional parking.
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In September 1982, a section of the former Pinnell’s boat and bicycle shop on lay in ruins after demolition the day before. The store was razed to make way for a 3-story medical office building - the new $24 million structure was built between Grace and West Broad streets, close to Richmond Metropolitan Hospital. Today the building serves as a Virginia Commonwealth University dormitory.
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This 1957 image shows Pratt’s Castle, built as the Richmond private home of William Abbott Pratt in the 1850s. Pratt used all of his fortune to construct his castle, which was modeled after the estates of his Scottish relatives. The castle sat on the southern tip of Fourth Street on Gamble’s Hill, overlooking the James River. It was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for the headquarters of what became Ethyl Corp.
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In September 1954, owners of the old Richmond Tobacco Exchange building at 13th and East Cary streets announced that it would be razed the next year to make way for a parking facility. The exchange opened in 1858 -- formerly, officials inspected tobacco at many warehouses all over the city, and the new building aimed to centralize the process.
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This August 1972 image shows the Virginia State Penitentiary, then located along Spring Street in Richmond. At the time, the state was considering options to replace the old and cramped pen, with one plan calling in part for a facility in the Green Springs area of Louisa County. Today the site is largely occupied by Afton Chemical Corp., a united of NewMarket Corp.
P.A. Gormus | https://richmond.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/tuckahoe-three-chopt-road/article_121e63c4-ed16-11ed-a91e-97fc5d6f829a.html | 2023-05-07T21:32:09 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/tuckahoe-three-chopt-road/article_121e63c4-ed16-11ed-a91e-97fc5d6f829a.html |
Abraham Kipkemei, 45, won the Lincoln Marathon Sunday, crossing the finish line on Stadium Drive in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds.
The Minneapolis resident averaged 5:13 per mile to win the Lincoln Marathon for the first time. He beat second-place finisher Matt Lorenz of Swisher, Iowa by more than 7 minutes.
Hirut Guangul, 31, of Aurora, Colorado, won the women's division with a time of 2:41:51.
Michael Rathje, 33, was the first Nebraskan to cross the finish line. He finished fifth with a time of 2:35:05, while Lincoln's Eddie Walters, 30, finished seventh with a time of 2:40:49.
The marathon drew 801 runners, while the half-marathon attracted 3,044 runners.
Lincoln's Noah Rasmussen, 24, won the half-marathon with a time of 1:05:20. Des Moines resident Emma Huston, 28, who won the women's marathon last year, took home top honors in the women's division of the half-marathon on Sunday with a time of 1:18:05. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/abraham-kipkemei-takes-lincoln-marathon-sunday-guangul-wins-womens-division/article_808ca6be-ed10-11ed-abe2-cfbef1a02528.html | 2023-05-07T21:37:00 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/abraham-kipkemei-takes-lincoln-marathon-sunday-guangul-wins-womens-division/article_808ca6be-ed10-11ed-abe2-cfbef1a02528.html |
If the millions funneled into Lincoln’s mayoral race did nothing else, they drew voters in record numbers for a city general election, which proved pivotal for Leirion Gaylor Baird when they re-elected her by a nearly 10 percentage point margin.
Turnout for Tuesday’s general election was 46.2%, in part, several observers said, because of unprecedented campaign spending by both Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, and Republican challenger Suzanne Geist.
Gaylor Baird raised $1.7 million, and cash and in-kind contributions to Geist’s campaign totaled $1.9 million, according to the latest filings with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission.
For comparison, Gaylor Baird raised about $580,000 when she ran four years ago.
For her second campaign, she spent just over $1 million, according to the latest records, though that will likely rise in later statements because more than $400,000 in payments to the Nebraska Democratic Party for campaign mailing costs are not yet accounted for on the expenditure side of the records.
Geist spent $1.5 million, but that doesn’t include more than $870,000 spent by a conservative political action committee — funded largely by two families — that opposed Gaylor Baird and supported Geist.
“I think sometimes people over-emphasize the impact money can have in a campaign,” said University of Nebraska-Lincoln political science professor Kevin Smith. “It doesn’t buy you a vote. But it can buy attention and name recognition, and those two things boost turnout.”
Typically, off-cycle local elections tend to fly under the radar, even for people who are politically aware and involved, Smith said.
“This election cycle you had to be really trying (not) to know there was a mayoral race going on — not turn on a TV, a radio, not open a Twitter feed, look up at a billboard or go to the mailbox,” he said.
Money can also allow candidates to control — or attempt to control — the narrative, to frame their story and also that of their opponent through various media channels, Smith said.
That certainly happened in this election.
Geist and her supporters attacked Gaylor Baird, painting her as an insider, implying she was responsible for rising property values and attacking her on public safety, portraying Lincoln’s crime as spiking during her tenure.
Gaylor Baird leaned into Geist’s record as a state senator, particularly on controversial issues, similar to the culture war issues that have dominated national politics, and said she was too extreme for Lincoln.
Negative campaigning works, Smith said, because people are more responsive to negative appeals than positive ones.
“If you are trying to appeal to a mass audience in a relatively short time span, it makes sense to play on the negative,” he said, though it’s no guarantee the messaging will work.
Gaylor Baird had the funding to build her own narrative and controversial bills in the Legislature likely worked against Geist, said political observers from both parties interviewed by the Journal Star who asked not to be named because of their positions.
Although Geist resigned from the Legislature after the primary, the debate over bills that sought to further restrict abortion, allow concealed carry without a permit or training and ban gender-affirming care for young people likely had an impact on the race, those observers said.
In Lincoln — where Gov. Jim, Pillen, former Gov. Pete Ricketts and Congressmen Mike Flood all lost to Democrats, those issues are important, and Gaylor Baird capitalized on them.
It’s also possible, Smith and others said, that large amounts of money from a few deep-pocketed donors could have backfired.
“If the perception among persuadable voters is that someone is trying to influence the mayoral outcome with their checkbook, it may be persuasive in the exact opposite way than the way the person writing the checks intended,” Smith said, emphasizing that he doesn’t have data available to know if that’s in fact what happened in the general election.
Donations from two families made up about 65% of the donations to Geist's campaign coffers, according to accountability and disclosure records. The Peeds and their company Sandhills Global donated nearly $1.09 million directly to Geist’s campaign and U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts donated $150,000.
And those two sources contributed $835,000 to Together Nebraska, the conservative political action committee that paid for many of the ads attacking Gaylor Baird on public safety and property taxes.
Geist’s other top donors included Cara Whitney, the wife of comedian Larry the Cable Guy, who donated $100,000; Attorney General Mike Hilgers, who donated more than $28,000 and several donors who gave $10,000, including the Lincoln Police Union, which endorsed Geist.
Gaylor Baird’s largest supporters included Mike Hays, CEO of National Research Corp., and his wife, who together donated $255,000; and the Lincoln Firefighters Association, which endorsed Gaylor Baird, donated $75,000.
Other top donors included John Woollam, owner of a high-tech company in the Haymarket, who donated $60,000; Virginia Johnson, a business owner and retired attorney, who gave more than $53,000; and Phil Perry, owner of a property management company in Lincoln, who donated more than $45,000.
Susanne Shore, a registered Democrat who is married to Pete Ricketts, donated $40,000. Ricketts and Shore have supported opposing candidates before, but Shore's contribution to Gaylor Baird is one of the largest she's made in recent elections.
Bold Alliance, a political advocacy group that focuses on water, land and environmental issues, donated $10,000; and donations from a number of labor unions in Omaha and Washington, D.C., totaled $34,000.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a national nonprofit that advocates for gun control, donated $1,000 to Gaylor Baird, as did a political action committee called Women Who Run Nebraska, which supports progressive women running for office in Nebraska.
The money raised and spent by both mayoral candidates may influence future races, by raising the financial bar, Smith said.
“Regardless of which side of the aisle you’re on, if you’re going to mount a serious campaign for mayor of Lincoln, now this precedent is set,” he said. “Sometimes once the precedent is set it just feeds on itself.”
Photos: Scenes from Lincoln's May 2 General Election
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/one-influence-of-record-spending-in-lincoln-mayoral-race-a-record-voter-turnout/article_876b9662-ebca-11ed-96e3-1beae3596708.html | 2023-05-07T21:37:06 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/one-influence-of-record-spending-in-lincoln-mayoral-race-a-record-voter-turnout/article_876b9662-ebca-11ed-96e3-1beae3596708.html |
ELLSWORTH -- The City of Ellsworth hosted its second annual "Jane's Walk" Maine to show gratitude for its historic downtown area.
Jane's Walk pays homage to Jane Jacobs, a writer and activist who encouraged people to share stories with neighbors during free volunteer-led walking conversations.
Residents of Ellsworth toured the city's streets learning new facts and details surrounding token structures that hold a hidden past.
"We have a very robust downtown. Ten years ago downtown was about 50% capacity and now we're 100% filled in our downtown storefronts," said Cara Roman, executive director for Heart of Ellsworth.
Several organizations partnered to host the event statewide including Maine Preservation, Maine Downtown Center, Historic Portland, and Maine Office of Tourism.
"It's been a really great collaborative statewide event. There's a lot of different communities around the state that have different walks that are special and highlight the different attributes of different urban spots,” according to Romano.
This year Ellsworth's Historic Society discussed the tragic fire back in 1933 which destroyed the entire downtown area.
Now community leaders reflect on how the city came together with intentions to continue community fellowship.
"Just wanting to bring our downtown together... And people learn more about our history, that's what I'm here for,” said Terry Weedcormier, treasurer for the Ellsworth Historical Society.
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CASTINE -- Maine Maritime Academy celebrated its 80th graduating class Saturday in Castine.
The college of engineering, management, science and transportation honored students with 30 awards for those who have shown academic excellence.
Senator Susan Collins attended the commencement as the keynote speaker.
"Maine Maritime academy is widely recognized as a college of accomplishment and dedication. It is also a place of deep connections and abiding friendship. I'd be remiss if my remarks did not recognize the team that helped you reach this great moment in your life,” said Collins. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/mma/article_006daae4-ed0d-11ed-8e60-0b0fa99ad193.html | 2023-05-07T21:37:24 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/mma/article_006daae4-ed0d-11ed-8e60-0b0fa99ad193.html |
Michigan faces pushback with gun red flag law set to pass
Lansing – Karen Kobylik knew her daughter should not have a gun. She had repeatedly called the police since her daughter turned 21, pleading with them to take her firearms because of the risk she posed to herself and others.
"They said we can’t take any guns away from her because we cannot step on her Second Amendment right,” Kobylik told The Associated Press. “I was like, ‘I’m a mother telling you that this kid’s got a mental issue that is not currently being addressed.’”
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Kobylik’s daughter, Ruby Taverner, shot and killed her brother and boyfriend before taking her own life in the early morning of May 8 last year. Kobylik believes all three lives could have been saved had red flag laws, also known as extreme risk protection orders, existed in Michigan that would have allowed police to remove her daughter’s guns and prevented her from purchasing more.
Now Michigan is poised to become the 20th state – and the first in nearly three years – to pass a red flag law. It would allow family members, police, mental health professionals, roommates and former dating partners to petition a judge to remove firearms from those they believe pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.
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Kobylik said her daughter had been treated for mental health problems including depression since the age of 7 but had stopped taking her medication at 18. Just days before the killings, Taverner purchased the Glock 43X used in the shooting after she had been released from a psychiatric hospital for threatening to take her own life, Kobylik said.
Taverner and her brother, Bishop, were both 22. Her boyfriend, Ray Muscat, was 24.
The red flag measure faces pushback on the local level in a state where gun-owning culture runs deep. Over half of the state’s counties have passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment “sanctuaries,” opposing laws they believe infringe on gun rights. Some sheriffs have said they will have trouble enforcing something they believe is unconstitutional.
“At the end of the day, the utmost responsibility for a sheriff is to uphold the Constitution,” Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott said.
The U.S. is on a record pace for mass shootings so far this year.
Touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens, an Associated Press analysis in September found red flag laws are barely used in the 19 states and the District of Columbia where they exist. Firearms were removed from people 15,049 times since 2020, fewer than 10 per 100,000 adult residents, according to the analysis.
It will be the first time since New Mexico in 2020 that a state has passed a red flag law, but similar legislation is being considered elsewhere as lawmakers seek solutions.
The Minnesota House advanced a wide-ranging public safety bill last month that includes a red flag law. It remains uncertain whether the provision will make it through a conference committee.
After a Nashville school shooting in March killed six people, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is calling lawmakers back into session after fellow Republicans declined to take up his “temporary mental health order of protection” proposal at the end of the legislative session they concluded in April.
The Biden administration has sought to foster wider use of state red flag laws and recently approved more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer those laws and similar programs.
Red flag legislation introduced following a shooting at Michigan State University, which left three students dead and five others wounded, passed the Democratic-controlled Michigan Legislature last month and is expected to be signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the coming weeks. It would not take effect until next year at the earliest.
A judge would have 24 hours to decide on a temporary extreme risk protection order after a request is filed. If granted, the judge would then have 14 days to set a hearing during which the flagged person would have to prove they do not pose a significant risk. A standard order would last one year.
Lying to a court when petitioning for a protection order would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Livingston County Sheriff Michael Murphy has already said he will not enforce the protection orders because he said they lack due process and are “ripe for abuse.” With 72 of Michigan's 83 counties voting Republican in the last presidential election, many sheriffs will have to choose between following the law or appeasing constituents.
Local officials “do have discretion as to which laws they will enforce with the resources of their office," Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement to the AP. She added that arguments against the orders are “based not on the law but the personal whims of what they want to support."
In the Upper Peninsula's Marquette County, Sheriff Greg Zyburt said that while he doesn’t agree with everything in the legislation, he “doesn’t pick and choose what laws to enforce.”
“It’s not my place," Zyburt said. “That’s why we have different branches of government.”
In Colorado, 37 counties that consider themselves “sanctuaries” issued just 45 surrender orders in the two years through 2021, one-fifth fewer per resident than non-sanctuary counties. New Mexico and Nevada reported only about 20 orders combined.
The laws have continued to receive widespread support from the public even with the lack of usage. An AP-NORC poll in late July found 78% of U.S. adults strongly or somewhat favor red flag laws.
Kobylik is a gun owner who considers herself a conservative. She spoke in favor of the red flag law at a Michigan Senate committee hearing in March.
“I’m not here to excuse Ruby’s actions," she said. "Far from it. What I am here to tell you is that this never had to happen.”
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Associated Press writers Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, and Steve Karnowski in St. Paul, Minnesota, contributed to this report.
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Delta flight from Detroit diverted to Boston due to 'unruly' passenger
Boston – A Delta Air Lines flight between Detroit and Amsterdam was diverted to Boston due to an unruly passenger on board, the airline says.
Delta Flight 134 diverted to Boston Logan International Airport just before 9 p.m. Friday where the plane was met by law enforcement and the passenger taken off the flight.
"We have zero tolerance for unruly behavior on our aircraft and express apologies to our valued customers and crew for experiencing this unfortunate delay in their travels,” the airline said in a statement.
Delta did not describe the disruption caused by the passenger, but said such a diversion is standard procedure in similar circumstances.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the airport, referred questions about the incident to the state police, which said Sunday they had no information about the case.
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PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes is threatening to sue the governor and the Legislature, saying they plan to take funds her office got from opioid makers.
That money from court judgments is supposed to be used to prevent and treat opioid misuse, but Mayes contends the governor and lawmakers want to sweep it into the state's general fund for other uses. And she blames the money crunch on the ballooning costs of universal vouchers that let any parents send their children to private and parochial schools at state expense.
In a letter Saturday to her fellow Democrat, Gov. Katie Hobbs, and to the GOP-led Legislature, Mayes said she is alarmed her office and most state agencies will not get additional funds in the new state budget, a situation she blamed on "the catastrophic drain on state resources caused by universal Empowerment Scholarship Accounts.'' Parents' demand for the program has exceeded projections.
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"Any budget that does not adjust the general fund during a time of inflation is a budget cut,'' Mayes wrote in the letter obtained by Capitol Media Services.
She listed a series of services her agency provides and how they would be impacted, such as those for the Department of Child Safety. The Attorney General's Office works with DCS to prosecute child abuse cases.
It's not just that there won't be an inflation adjustment. Mayes said she requested a 15% pay increase — nearly $3.9 million — to deal with the fact that as the child-abuse caseload grows, she is unable to fill positions.
She separately argued that her criminal prosecutions division needs more tax dollars.
She said there are more than 18 positions that are paid for through the Consumer Protection Revolving Fund. That's fueled by Arizona's share of a 2012, $50 billion nationwide settlement with lenders who cheated borrowers out of money.
Only thing is, Mayes said, those funds will most likely be depleted by the end of 2025.
'I will not stand by'
On those issues, the attorney general may be at the mercy of the governor and lawmakers who have the constitutional authority to set spending and who are looking to put the finishing touches on a state budget for the coming year as early as this week.
But Mayes may have a legal tool at her disposal over what she said has been discussed about having the Legislature decide how to use money Arizona got through the consent judgments with several pharmaceutical companies for their roles in the opioid crisis.
Arizona will get more than $1.1 billion over the next 18 years, of which the state government gets about $502 million, and the rest goes directly to counties, cities and towns.
Those dollars are off-limits to lawmakers, Mayes said.
She said the consent judgments — recorded with and enforceable by the courts — have specific requirements on how the money be spent. Giving it to lawmakers to spend how they wish is not among those intended targets.
"As attorney general I will not stand by and allow this to happen,'' she warned Hobbs and lawmakers. I am prepared to go to court to ensure that the state is able to obtain and properly direct those funds for opioid treatment, prevent and education if warranted."
Disputes with Hobbs
How much traction Mayes' demands will get from Hobbs or the Legislature is unclear.
Mayes has been in an open feud with Hobbs over the lease of state land in La Paz County to a corporation using the property — and the water beneath it — to grow hay for cattle in Saudi Arabia.
The attorney general contends the contracts should be canceled, while the governor has pushed back and questioned whether that would be illegal.
At the same time, Mayes has publicly lashed out at the Arizona Department of Water Resources, saying it has failed to live up to its legal obligation to protect groundwater supplies.
While she has acknowledged the problems go back years, long before Hobbs took office in January, that department is now under Hobbs' direction. Hobbs has kept Tom Buschatzke, who was previous Republican Gov. Doug Ducey's choice, as department director.
Hobbs' press aide Christian Slater declined to address the specific questions about the budget she will approve.
"Gov. Hobbs is committed to working with Democrats and Republicans to pass a budget that prioritizes the needs of everyday Arizonans and helps build a state that works for every community,'' he said Sunday in a written statement.
'She will get her piece of the pie'
As far as Republican legislators go, many are allies of former Republican candidate Abe Hamadeh, who is contesting the results of the November election in which he lost to Mayes for attorney general by just 280 votes. A hearing on his bid for a new trial is set for later this month.
Then there are other legal fights, as well.
House Speaker Ben Toma of Peoria and Senate President Warren Petersen of Gilbert are seeking to intervene in a case over the legality of a 2021 law that makes it illegal to perform an abortion if the doctor knows the procedure is sought "solely because of a genetic abnormality of that child,'' including chromosomal disorders. That move comes because Mayes has refused to defend the law because she says it runs afoul of a right of privacy in the Arizona Constitution.
And the same time, Republican leaders have filed paperwork to defend a 2022 law that bars transgender girls from participating in girls' sports after Mayes disqualified her office from getting involved.
The failure to defend laws approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature is a raw spot.
"The attorney general should be focusing on the core functions of her position, like defending the law, instead of trying to influence budget negotiations, as well as craft her own water policy,'' said Senate President Pro-Tem T.J. Shope on Sunday.
"She will get her piece of the pie,'' the Coolidge Republican said in a written statement. "We don't need to cut K-12 or anything else to fund her agency,'' adding, "the Legislature and the governor will hammer out funding details.''
A spokesman for Toma said there will be no response to Mayes until at least Monday, when the latest budget plans are reviewed.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — A cornhole tournament was held on the grounds of the Lace Works Tap & Grill.
And in addition to the tournament, there was a basket raffle and other bar games.
All the proceeds go toward the Brian H. Swatt Memorial Eagle Scout Scholarship, which awards $1000 in scholarships to two northestern Pa. Eagle Scouts every year.
Brian was a 21-year-old college student from Mayfield who died in a car crash in 2019.
He was very active in the community and with the Eagle Scouts.
Organizers say they're glad to be able to support the scouts.
"Scouting is an incredible program that allows people to grow and learn and become their best selves and, you know, to be able to come out and support and help them with, you know, further endeavors in college education is truly remarkable to see that," said Matt Wheeland, event coordinator.
The tournament was open to all ages.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — Special Olympics Pennsylvania Northeast Region partnered with Marywood University for the Unified Softball Spectacular.
Marywood students played alongside Special Olympics athletes.
And between games, there was a home run derby, base race relay, concessions, and basket raffles.
Organizers say the event was a great way to bring everyone together.
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PITTSTON, Pa. — A traditional spring festival returned to Luzerne County.
It was the 52nd annual West Pittston Cherry Blossom Festival.
The festival started along Susquehanna Avenue on Saturday.
Even though it's called the cherry blossom festival, there weren't many of the blossoms.
But folks didn't let that stop them from enjoying the warm weather and all the festival had to offer.
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LEHMAN, Pa. — Folks that know Idetown volunteer firefighter Joe Plata say he's a man of few words but a man with many years of experience with putting others before himself.
"He's been here many, many years and continues to be here more, will do anything to help the community, and he continues to do it as we speak. He's not going to stop," said Jerry Walker, Idetown Fire Dept Vice President.
For Plata, this year marks 50 years of service as a volunteer firefighter for the Idetown Fire Department.
"This is a rare, rare experience. So I'm glad to be part of it," said Idetown Fire Department Chief Joseph Blaine.
And in his 50 years of service, they say Plata has done it all, from commanding at scenes to helping with maintenance around the station.
So it was only right that his fellow firefighters honored him at this fireman's breakfast in Lehman Township.
"It's a special event. This man has dedicated a lot to the community We couldn't do anything formal. So we tried to get him to he wasn't expecting it. So it's just great to do it," Blaine added.
Plata says he's not someone that deserves such recognition.
"It is just something I always enjoyed helping people," he said.
Being a member of the bravest is in his blood.
"It runs in my family, we've done it for generations," Plata said.
"It's hard to get volunteers as it is and to have somebody that's been here for 50 years. It's an honor to serve with them. You know, being the fire chief and then being a former fire chief. He's taught me a lot," added Blaine.
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A 14-year-old is behind bars after allegedly firing shots at another juvenile in Lycoming County.
Police say it happened Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m. on Rural Avenue.
Officials say no one was struck by the gunfire.
The teenager was charged as an adult and faces attempted homicide, reckless endangerment, and weapons charges.
He is locked up in the Lycoming County Prison.
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SHENANDOAH, Pa. — Baseball players are breaking in Schuylkill County's newest athletic training facility.
It's called the Skook Sports Lab.
“It makes you feel like you're actually in one of the big facilities that you full-on train in,” said Kale Rowan, a 6th-grade player from Shenandoah.
From elementary to college students, baseball players of all ages are now coming from all across Schuylkill County and beyond to train in what used to be a storage warehouse for a beer distributor.
Seventh grader, Landon Trout, travels from Pottsville to Shenandoah every week because his middle school doesn't have a junior high team.
“They probably would have to go to like another league or another coach or get help a certain way, or their parents would help them most likely,” he added.
That's all Skook Sports Lab owner Ian McCole said he had to choose from while growing up. Making it harder to train to play baseball at the collegiate level.
Newswatch 16 followed McCole from pitching on the field here at Shenandoah Valley to playing at Misericordia and Saint Joseph's University.
And now he's passing on what he's learned on all those teams here.
“You know, there was never anything like this to get me the help that I needed that would of made getting recruited, playing in college a lot easier than it was for me. That's what I'm hoping to do, give a couple guys something I didn't have while I was growing up," McCole explained.
What started off as giving lessons in his own backyard has transformed into an indoor facility where McCole can train players all year round.
“You know, watching these kids who watched me pitch and now watching them do what I went to do is crazy,” added McCole.
One person McCole saw cheering for him on the sidelines was Kaleb Maksimik, who says McCole inspired him to continue playing baseball in college.
Maksimik will be playing at Shippensburg University after he graduates from Shenandoah Valley High School this June.
“Ian helped me out a lot, like with talking to the coach and everything. The day the coach came to watch me, he was there helping me with everything. So if it wasn't for Ian, I probably wouldn't be where I'm going,” he mentioned.
McCole hopes he will be able to help even more of his players get the same opportunities he did.
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JACKSON, Calif. — AT&T's network has gone down in Amador County, the Amador Fire Protection District said in a Facebook post Sunday.
The network disruption has forced the Amador County Sheriff's Office to activate an emergency plan to be able to take in 911 calls. Fire officials say that if 911 does not work, those in an emergency can go to a fire station for help.
Amador Fire's stations include Station 111 on Mace Drive in Pioneer, Station 114 on Highway 88 in Pine Grove, Station 116 on the Jackson Rancheria, Station 121 on Demartini Road near Highway 16, Station 122 on Sherwood Street in Plymouth and Station 123 on Jibboom Street in Fiddletown.
The cause of the network outage is unknown. It comes a week after "severe damage" also left the county's 911 lines inoperable.
In April, officials in neighboring San Joaquin County announced a crack down in copper wire theft that damages fiber cables. Fiber cables are the piece of communications infrastructure used to transmit calls, Wi-Fi and cell service.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials are investigating after a fire broke out inside a mobile home in Sacramento.
According to officials with Metro Fire of Sacramento, the fire erupted inside a mobile home on Tiki Lane around 12:28 p.m. Sunday. The homeowner was able to make it out safely, fire officials said.
Despite threatening other structures, firefighters say the blaze was kept to the mobile home of origin. Officials are looking into the fire's cause.
"Fire spreads incredibly fast in these homes due to the combustible materials used in the building process and the limited spacing between homes," Metro Fire of Sacramento said in a Tweet.
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BOISE, Idaho — Since 1996, the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights has called Idaho home. The goal at inception, constructing a physical tribute to human rights, and the importance of being vigilant.
"The Memorial is a world-class educational park inspired by Anne Frank’s faith in humanity. A living, vibrant interactive classroom for Idaho’s school children, it inspires people of all ages to contemplate the moral implications of their actions and the scope of their civic responsibilities," the website states.
That vision became a reality when the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial opened to the public in 2002. The Memorial is a world-class educational park inspired by Anne Frank's faith in humanity.
The Wassmuth Center is in the midst of a capital campaign, working to build a new education center named after former Governor and human rights champion, Phil Batt.
This week on Viewpoint, leaders from the Wassmuth Center join the program to detail expansion plans and looking ahead to the future of an Idaho icon.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Seven people and three dogs are displaced after their home went up in flames in West Manheim Township in the early hours of Sunday.
Firefighters were called to the first block of Joshua Drive shortly after 4 a.m. for a house on fire.
Officials say there were no injuries.
The Red Cross is helping the family and a fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/7-displaced-house-fire-york-county-joshua-drive/521-7cc98a24-9169-46b9-9d61-d6e4ad2be542 | 2023-05-07T22:15:52 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/7-displaced-house-fire-york-county-joshua-drive/521-7cc98a24-9169-46b9-9d61-d6e4ad2be542 |
T-Mobile’s flagship store in Union Square has permanently shuttered, leaving yet another vacancy in downtown San Francisco.
A sign on the front doors of the two-level, 17,000-square-foot space at 1 Stockton St. now redirects customers to the cellphone carrier’s nearby stores on Mission and Market streets, as the San Francisco Business Times first reported. A spokesperson for T-Mobile did not immediately respond to SFGATE’s request for more information surrounding the closure, but an employee at the T-Mobile on Mission Street confirmed it had occurred about a month ago and that staff would “probably get transferred to other stores.”
The building previously served as the spacious flagship store for Apple, which later moved to its current location on Post Street, as well as a Sephora and kitschy movie memorabilia restaurant Planet Hollywood, both of which eventually shuttered.
Records show 1 Stockton was sold to Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation in 2013 for $50 million.
The news follows last week’s closure announcements of Saks Off 5th on Market Street, which will shutter later this fall after eight years in business, as well as the Nordstrom at Westfield San Francisco Centre and the Nordstrom Rack on Market Street, which will both close by the end of August and have been in operation for about 35 years and nine years, respectively. In a statement to SFGATE, Nordstrom said it is leaving because “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Westfield told SFGATE that “a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area.”
Other stores that have recently vacated the same block include the Disney Store, Armani Exchange and CB2. However, a few openings are on the horizon, including the downtown Ikea mall, and a city program launched by San Francisco Mayor London Breed last month aims to reduce some of the mounting vacancies.
Last week, Breed also proposed legislation that would amend the city’s planning and building codes in hopes of streamlining the approval process and requirements for converting existing office buildings into housing, in addition to removing restrictions to allow for a wider variety of businesses and activities like "indoor and outdoor entertainment" and "flexible retail workspaces" to operate within downtown San Francisco.
“The challenges facing Downtown require us to imagine what is possible and create the foundation for a stronger, more resilient future,” Breed said in a statement released by her office Thursday. “Working with President Peskin and the Board, we can create more opportunities to fill our empty buildings, whether that’s to create housing or making it easier to fill office and retail space. These changes shouldn’t be something that requires granting exceptions through lengthy paperwork and exhaustive public hearings. We need to make the process easier for getting our buildings active and full.” | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/tmobile-closes-union-square-store-san-francisco-18084488.php | 2023-05-07T22:16:54 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/tmobile-closes-union-square-store-san-francisco-18084488.php |
BEREA, Ohio — A German Shepard was reunited with its family after it was rescued from a river in the Berea portion of the Metroparks.
Metroparks police responded to reports of a dog stuck on rocks near the Barrett Road Overlook Tuesday evening. The dog became stuck on a small rock in the middle of a swiftly flowing river.
Members of the Berea Fire Department, Southwest Emergency Response Team (SERT) and Cleveland Metroparks Police Water Rescue Team responded and assisted in the rescue of the dog.
The rescue became more difficult due to high water levels from recent rainfall, but the dog was rescued safely without additional complications.
Additional pictures from the rescue can be seen below. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/dog-reunited-with-family-rescue-metroparks-river/95-b5cb0e6a-b40a-476b-a628-9faa66f92612 | 2023-05-07T22:20:50 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/dog-reunited-with-family-rescue-metroparks-river/95-b5cb0e6a-b40a-476b-a628-9faa66f92612 |
ROANOKE, Va. – Hundreds of people came out to Elmwood Park Sunday to show their love for tacos and margaritas at the first TacoRitas! Festival.
WSLS is a proud sponsor of the event with the Berglund Center.
People got a taste of some of the tacos Roanoke has to offer — with local restaurants like Tuco’s, Cabo, and Empanada World participating.
There was also live music, salsa dancing lessons and of course margaritas, because you can’t have tacos without a little bit of tequila.
“We just wanted to bring a fun event for the community where people can have fun and enjoy some tacos and margaritas,” Robert Knight, Director of Sales and Marketing at the Berglund Center said.
This was the first year of the event, but organizers are already hoping to bring it back annually in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/07/tacoritas-festival-comes-to-roanoke/ | 2023-05-07T22:38:53 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/07/tacoritas-festival-comes-to-roanoke/ |
Sienna Oswald, 1, of Toms River, meets a donkey Sunday afternoon at the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary Spring Festival in the Mizpah section of Hamilton Township. Thousands of visitors showed up on a nice spring day to meet some friendly animals, try some vegan food and check out the vendors.
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Farm owner Laurie Zaleski signs copies of her book. Zaleski released her memoir, “Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals,” in February 2022.
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Stephanie Le, of Basking Ridge, and Courtney Orlando, of Cape May Court House, feed Tico the donkey Sunday afternoon at the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary Spring Festival in the Mizpah section of Hamilton Township.
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Funny Farm owner Laurie Zaleski and Isabella Flores, 5, of Millville, show off their cowboy boots.
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Ashley and her daughter Scarlett, 3, of the Atco section of Waterford Township, feed the geese. Ashley’s 1-year-old daughter, Savannah, also got to meet the animals at the festival.
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Bobby Baez, 35, and his 2-year-old son, Lucca, feed the ducks.
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — Corinne Baez had never been to the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary before Sunday.
She knew there was an opportunity to meet some animals up close, but she never expected there to be hundreds just roaming the 15-acre farm ready to receive food, pats and greetings from the day's visitors.
And there were lots of visitors to go around for the Funny Farm's residents that day.
Sunday marked the first Funny Farm Spring Festival at the animal rescue located along Roalroad Boulevard in the Mizpah section of the township.
"I love the animals, I love what they do here," Baez said. "It's for a great cause, and everyone is having a good time."
Thousands of people took advantage of the beautiful weather to visit the farm and enjoy the animals, food, vendors and crafts. Laurie Zaleski, the farm's owner, was overwhelmed with the turnout.
"I knew it was going to be busy, but I never could have imagined even this," Zaleski said. "I have no words, and I never have no words!"
About a half-dozen food trucks lined the back corner of the property. Dozens of vendors selling items from clothing and crafts to packaged food filled the field adjacent to the horse pens while live music played.
The front of the farm, where most of the action with the animals took place, was bustling with families hand-feeding the livestock, from the farm's friendly goat, donkeys and fowl roaming the grounds to reaching over the pens to say hi to the horses, cows and llamas.
Zaleski and her team planned for a busy day. They got extra parking from some neighboring lots about a half-mile away. St. Augustine Prep, located about 5 miles up Route 40, loaned its school for parking as well, with people shuttling over to the farm. Police helped direct traffic, and medical personnel were on site to help in case anyone got a scratch or nibble from a goat.
The Funny Farm, which opened in 2000, is a nonprofit 510(c)(3) charitable organization. It is open to the public Tuesdays and Sundays, and it relies heavily on donations.
"We leave it free to get in, and we don't have people donating all the time. It's only when they can, you know? But every little bit helps," a grateful Zaleski said. "... People are like, 'I wish it could be more.' Each of those $5 or $10 or even $1 adds up!"
The farm has gained a boost in popularity since February 2022, when Zaleski released her memoir, "Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals," which gained national attention. The farm usually holds two festivals a year, one in the summer and another in the fall. This year, Zaleski decided to hold one in the spring instead of in June so more people could come out.
Hammonton residents Bobby and Corrine Baez brought their kids, Lucca, 2, and Mason, 9. Lucca was having a blast feeding lettuce to the ducks. Mason loved meeting the donkeys, including Tico and Eeyore.
"We went to the vendors, got some candles and had some vegan food," Bobby Baez said. "You can't have chicken when there are chickens running around!"
It was Bobby's second time coming to Funny Farm and the first for Corrine. She marveled at the unique experience.
"They're roaming around, they're friendly, you can pet them, feed them. It's a good experience," Corrine Baez said. "You don't get that anywhere. You go to a zoo and you can look at (the animals). But this, you can interact."
Stephanie Le, of Basking Ridge, was another first-time visitor. She was there with her husband, Dan, and their niece, Courtney Orland, of Cape May Court House.
The trio checked out the vendors and tried some vegan food. With a cup of lettuce in hand, Stephanie was hand-feeding Tico.
"It's amazing. The animals are so amazing," she said. "This is the coolest thing."
Zaleski was approached hundreds of times throughout the day by old friends, frequent visitors and those just eager to meet the woman behind the sanctuary's success.
One young visitor, Isabella Flores, 5, of Millville, showed up sporting tan cowboy boots with blue stars. She had to show them off to Zaleski, known for her colorful cowboy boots and hats while doing her weekly Facebook live videos.
Zaleski, wearing a pair of purple boots Sunday, posed for a photo with Flores showing off their footwear.
Flores said her favorite part of the day was feeding the animals and getting her face painted. She also loved saying hello to Zaleski's dogs Jesse and Tucker, who were hanging outside her farm house playing with the visitors. Both dogs have megaesophagus, a disorder of the esophagus.
Zaleski said her highlight was seeing how happy her animals were getting all the attention from the visitors.
"I knew it was going to be busy, but I never could have imagined even this. I have no words, and I never have no words!" Laurie Zaleski, owner of Funny Farm
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Sienna Oswald, 1, of Toms River, meets a donkey Sunday afternoon at the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary Spring Festival in the Mizpah section of Hamilton Township. Thousands of visitors showed up on a nice spring day to meet some friendly animals, try some vegan food and check out the vendors.
Farm owner Laurie Zaleski signs copies of her book. Zaleski released her memoir, “Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals,” in February 2022.
Stephanie Le, of Basking Ridge, and Courtney Orlando, of Cape May Court House, feed Tico the donkey Sunday afternoon at the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary Spring Festival in the Mizpah section of Hamilton Township.
Ashley and her daughter Scarlett, 3, of the Atco section of Waterford Township, feed the geese. Ashley’s 1-year-old daughter, Savannah, also got to meet the animals at the festival. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/thousands-enjoy-food-fun-and-furry-friends-at-funny-farm-spring-festival/article_810ac8d2-ecf2-11ed-8f58-3367fe685a6d.html | 2023-05-07T22:47:35 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/thousands-enjoy-food-fun-and-furry-friends-at-funny-farm-spring-festival/article_810ac8d2-ecf2-11ed-8f58-3367fe685a6d.html |
VANCOUVER, Wash. — On Saturday morning, King Charles III, the 74-year-old son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was officially crowned, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was the 40th coronation at Westminster Abbey, and the first in 70 years.
Throughout the weekend, festivities continue in the United Kingdom, for what many consider a one-in-a-generation event. Many got up early to watch the coronation from home. Some had the rare opportunity to see the pomp and pageantry in person.
Jacque Hillsbery and Sande Schweier were among the crowds of people gathered in London for the coronation, with a front row seat to catch a glimpse of King Charles III and the Royal Family.
"We were packed in, almost like sardines," Schweier said.
"We were three rows back, in the front," explained Hillsbery.
The two met at Hillsboro High School, and learned they shared a British connection. Hillsbery was born and raised in England until she was eight and Schweier's mother was Scottish. Her family moved from Germany to England when she was a child, before moving to the U.S. a few years later.
"We decided because we're both turning 60 this year and that this was going to be our 60th birthday adventure," Hillsbery said, speaking with KGW over Zoom from London, "And King Charles made it, you know, so it'll be even more special."
Both said the entire experience exceeded expectations.
"During the ceremony, they also sang God Save the King, and then everyone around sang God Save the King, and it just sent goosebumps...It's probably something that we may not see again, you know, in our lifetimes."
Back in Vancouver, Washington, Jan White — turning 90-years-old in October — watching her second coronation, while reflecting on her first. In 1953, she saved up to accompany her friend, Joan, on the trip overseas, when she was just 19-years- old.
"She lived in Luton, which is 35 miles north of London. I remember that so well. I stayed with them for six months," she said.
As for the coronation, she too had a front row seat.
"We slept on the sidewalk overnight before the coronation and the day of the coronation we waved at the queen, as she came by," she said, "I picked up a lot of souvenirs, which my daughter-in-law has had and I didn't realize that she had so many. It's really fun going through these, and seeing the present King of England is in some of these pictures." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-vancouver-london-uk-connections-historic-coronation-king-charles-iii/283-d374d5d4-6e8a-4eb5-ada6-89bf6d7be8cd | 2023-05-07T22:56:17 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-vancouver-london-uk-connections-historic-coronation-king-charles-iii/283-d374d5d4-6e8a-4eb5-ada6-89bf6d7be8cd |
SALLISAW, Okla. — Spanish version: Para español haga click aqui.
The Sallisaw Police Department (SPD) saved the day after a vehicle in a high-speed chase was stopped from driving into a festival crowd on Saturday, May 6.
According to SPD, Captain Weber and Officer Wesley McGuirt were both working during the Diamond Daze Festival when they received information about a police pursuit coming towards them.
SPD says the suspect was driving at a very high speed and ended up traveling north on Oak Street toward the event. Captain Weber and Officer McGuirt were the last line of defense before the suspect vehicle would have entered the event area, according to SPD.
Given the circumstances, Captain Weber decided that they didn’t have any other choice besides disabling the suspect vehicle. Captain Weber took immediate action and drove straight into the vehicle head-on. This successfully stopped the vehicle and prevented it from entering the event which SPD says would have caused massive casualties.
"As chief of police, I am beyond proud of these two officers for the quick response and action that they took. I personally know that it wouldn’t have mattered what officers with this department that were put in that situation they would have reacted the same way as Captain Weber and Officer McGuirt," said Chief Terry Franklin.
Captain Weber ended up with a broken wrist while Officer McGuirt got cuts and bruises. No information was released on whether the suspect was injured or not.
"I know we all need to give thanks to God for Blessing us and keeping our community and officers safe," said Chief Franklin.
Captain Weber is also the vice president of the Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police. They released the following statement:
"The word Hero sometimes is lost on folks. Today, Sallisaw Police Captain, John Weber, performed a life-saving, heroic act all while completely placing his own life in jeopardy.
During Diamond Daze in Sallisaw today, three individuals led police on a pursuit that ultimately headed toward the area of the festival where hundreds of kids were enjoying themselves in and around the bounce house area. Within a block of the festival, Captain Weber placed himself in danger by using his police vehicle to stop these lunatics who were wreaking havoc on this community.
Captain Weber, thank you for your selfless service and sacrifice. We pray you heal quickly.
Oh, by the way, Captain Weber is the VP of the Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police.
The City of Sallisaw also recognized his heroic act by saying,
"This afternoon, local law enforcement was involved in a vehicle pursuit that entered the city limits of Sallisaw at a high rate of speed. As the pursuit continued, it neared the Diamond Daze event that was being held downtown. The vehicle eventually turned and was headed toward an area where several children were playing. To prevent the vehicle from getting closer to the children, Sallisaw Police Captain John Weber put himself at risk by hitting the vehicle head one, stopping the pursuit. We commend Captain Weber for his actions! His actions today not only prevented many injuries, but possibly lives as well."
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BRANSON, Mo. — Silver Dollar City (SDC) was named #1 Theme Park in America by USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards, after four weeks of voting by loyal fans.
Silver Dollar City Attractions was awarded three amusement-related awards in the nationwide poll of USA TODAY readers.
SDC's Time Traveler received two awards for the Top 20 Best Roller Coaster poll and tropical-themed water park White Water as a Top 20 Water Park in the U.S.
“Our guests come from all over the USA. We recognize they could visit other states, other regions and other theme parks, but they have chosen to not only visit us, but to also vote for us,” said Brad Thomas, President of Silver Dollar City Attractions. “Our citizens strive every day to create unique and fun adventures and experiences for each guest. We want to provide the entire family an escape from the noise of their daily routines and the opportunity to grow closer together as they experience our rides, our shows, our festivals, our attractions and our incredible food.”
SDC was nominated by a panel of amusement and theme park experts consisting of USA TODAY editors, 10Best.com editors and additional high-profile influencers from across the U.S.
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BALTIMORE — A move to help find a cure for Alzheimer's.
Eleven dancers competed in the 15th Annual Memory Ball.
They hit the dance floor, showing off their best movies, to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association.
The black-tie event took place Saturday night at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel.
"This event raises funds for both people living now with Alzheimer's, and their family members, as well as funding research that will eventually lead us to a cure," said David McShea, Executive Director of the Greater Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.
One of the judges this year was WMAR's very own meteorologist Chris Swaim.
Over the course of its 15-year history, the even has raised more $8.5 million for Alzheimer's research and programs. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/dancers-compete-to-raise-money-for-alzheimers-association | 2023-05-07T23:06:11 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/dancers-compete-to-raise-money-for-alzheimers-association |
A 37-year-old Lincoln Marathon record fell Sunday on a warm, pleasant day for runners in the annual race around the Capital City.
Abraham Kipkemei won the men's marathon division in in 2 hours, 16 minutes, 16 seconds. As he crossed the finish line on Stadium Drive, his name was etched into history.
The 45-year-old from Minneapolis broke the event's men marathon record that was set in 1985 when Philip Coppess finished in 2:16:30.
Kipkemei averaged 5:13 per mile to break Coppess' record by 14 seconds and beat second-place finisher Matt Lorenz of Swisher, Iowa by more than 7 minutes.
Hirut Guangul, 31, of Aurora, Colorado, won the women's marathon division with a time of 2:41:51. She averaged 6:11 per mile.
Michael Rathje, 33, was the first Nebraskan to cross the finish line. The Omahan finished fifth with a time of 2:35:05, while Lincoln's Eddie Walters, 30, finished seventh with a time of 2:40:49.
The marathon drew 801 runners, while the half-marathon attracted 3,044 runners.
Lincoln's Noah Rasmussen, 24, won the half-marathon with a time of 1:05:20. Des Moines resident Emma Huston, 28, who won the women's marathon last year, took home top honors in the women's division of the half-marathon on Sunday with a time of 1:18:05. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-marathon-longtime-mens-record-falls-a-city-winner-and-another-huston-win/article_808ca6be-ed10-11ed-abe2-cfbef1a02528.html | 2023-05-07T23:13:18 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-marathon-longtime-mens-record-falls-a-city-winner-and-another-huston-win/article_808ca6be-ed10-11ed-abe2-cfbef1a02528.html |
Jeff Dodge, the owner of Ramos Pizza, was found dead in his home on Saturday, according to an online post.
Lincoln Police Department could not be reached for comment, but a department call log lists a "natural death" incident at Dodge's south Lincoln residence at 2:59 p.m. Saturday.
There are no other details, but a Ramos Pizza worker on Sunday said there would be an announcement on the pizza parlor's Facebook page Monday.
Dodge took over Ramos Pizza in 1993, later merging it with Buster's Barbecue & Brew in 2003 at its 48th Street and Normal Boulevard location.
The business was listed at No. 100 of Pizza Today's Hot 100 Independent Pizzerias in October 2018, and later announced the opening of a second location at the corner of 48th and St. Paul in 2019. However, that restaurant has since closed and is now occupied by Sabor Latino, a Honduran restaurant and bar. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/ramos-pizza-owner-found-dead-in-his-home/article_e20e1f46-ed09-11ed-a85f-0740ab9e092f.html | 2023-05-07T23:13:27 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/ramos-pizza-owner-found-dead-in-his-home/article_e20e1f46-ed09-11ed-a85f-0740ab9e092f.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo (SCZ) celebrated Cinco de Mayo Saturday.
Many people got out and about to enjoy the family-friendly fiesta that had exhibitors, authentic Mexican food vendors and live music.
“It was a good experience,” Ivan Paz, a musician, said. “It was my first time performing. I always came as a little boy, and now being able to perform on stage is like a dream come true.”
Paz said it is events like this that help keep his culture present within the community. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-zoo-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo/ | 2023-05-07T23:20:47 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-zoo-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo/ |
BUTLER COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — A man from Wichita crashed into another car while he was attempting to flee from law enforcement Sunday afternoon.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP), just after 1 p.m., a 30-year-old Wichita man was driving a 2010 Mazda Mazda6 westbound on U.S. Route 54 in Butler County, attempting to elude law enforcement.
A 68-year-old woman from Douglass was driving a 2017 Ford F150 on the outside lane on westbound U.S. Route 50.
The KHP says the woman attempted to yield to law enforcement by moving to the right shoulder.
The man tried to pass her on the right shoulder and struck the rear of her truck, according to the KHP.
Butler County dispatch tells KSN the man then fled the scene on foot but was apprehended by law enforcement and taken into custody. He suffered minor injuries.
The woman also suffered minor injuries and was taken to an area hospital. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-man-crashes-into-car-while-attempting-to-flee-law-enforcement/ | 2023-05-07T23:20:53 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-man-crashes-into-car-while-attempting-to-flee-law-enforcement/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — It's been almost 50 years since the first ever Pecan Street Festival in the Sixth Street Historic District. But despite all the change the city has seen, the festival is still an Austin original.
The event is named after Pecan Street, which is now known as Sixth Street. With more than 300 artists, it's become one of the largest and longest-running arts and crafts festivals in the nation.
Some artists like Ross De La Garza started coming to the festival very early on.
"It was probably about '93 or so," said De La Garza, Primordial Persuasions.
He said it's still the same Sixth Street he's known, just evolved.
"Austin downtown is not like it was, you know, in the '80s," De La Garza said. "So there's a lot of new energy and people that are coming in that are still making it a really, you know, great place to be."
People like Donna Ortiz and her family who have been coming to the festival since 2000 are what keep the event going.
"We just love the vendors, the art, everything," Ortiz said.
Pecan Street Festival event organizer Luis Zapata said there is more to the festival than just the vendors, music and food.
"The most important part of the festival is the people themselves who come here, show after show,” Zapata said.
He said the festival gives the city a chance to celebrate Austin together.
"We all get together here, you know, from different walks of life and we interact together and hopefully that will help us be a stronger community," he said.
Even though the city grows every day, the core of Austin's culture remains the same with events like these. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/48th-pecan-street-festival/269-2fd511b4-aa6d-458b-be2a-3b3206208781 | 2023-05-07T23:33:23 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/48th-pecan-street-festival/269-2fd511b4-aa6d-458b-be2a-3b3206208781 |
CASTINE -- Maine Maritime Academy celebrated its 80th graduating class Saturday in Castine.
The college of engineering, management, science and transportation honored students with 30 awards for those who have shown academic excellence.
Senator Susan Collins attended the commencement as the keynote speaker.
"Maine Maritime academy is widely recognized as a college of accomplishment and dedication. It is also a place of deep connections and abiding friendship. I'd be remiss if my remarks did not recognize the team that helped you reach this great moment in your life,” said Collins. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/mma-commencement-ceremony/article_006daae4-ed0d-11ed-8e60-0b0fa99ad193.html | 2023-05-07T23:39:10 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/mma-commencement-ceremony/article_006daae4-ed0d-11ed-8e60-0b0fa99ad193.html |
An adult man was the victim of what appeared to be an accidental drowning in the Pike River Sunday afternoon near Carthage College.
Emergency responders from several agencies were called to the scene after a report of an individual struggling in the river north of Alford Park Drive and Sheridan Road, west of the college campus.
The identity of the victim was not immediately available.
According to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, responding personnel searched the water and found the man who was declared deceased.
Emergency units responding to the scene included Somers Fire & Rescue, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, Racine County Sheriff’s Department, Caledonia Fire and Rescue, Paris Fire, the Racine Fire Bells, Racine Special Team 1, and units from Salem Lakes and Scout Leaders Rescue Squad, among others.
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The northbound lane of Sheridan Road was closed to traffic for several hours Sunday afternoon near Alford Park Drive.
A small crowd of onlookers gathered in the 2200 block of Sheridan Road but were kept back from the large presence of first responders working in the area of the Pike River.
Law enforcement conducted interviews at the scene with those who many have witnessed the incident.
Additional information was not expected to be released before Monday.
Units began to clear from the scene at 3:41 p.m. and the temporary emergency command was released, according to radio traffic, after 4 p.m. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/man-accidentally-drowns-in-pike-river-near-carthage-college-sunday/article_84c5cd62-ed17-11ed-b5f7-dfc41c84f24e.html | 2023-05-07T23:42:12 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/man-accidentally-drowns-in-pike-river-near-carthage-college-sunday/article_84c5cd62-ed17-11ed-b5f7-dfc41c84f24e.html |
Pleasant Prairie police arrested a Kenosha man Saturday afternoon, after he led police on a chase including an attempt to flee on foot.
According to Pleasant Prairie Police Sgt. Chad Brown, Pleasant Prairie officers were advised of a 2005 Chrysler 300 driving recklessly southbound on 27th Avenue near 71st Street around 3:30 p.m.
Pleasant Prairie police located the vehicle near 39th Avenue and 87th Street, where they attempted to stop the driver, a 20-year-old Kenosha resident. A vehicle pursuit ensued until the driver stopped his car in the 3700 block of Springbrook Road and began to flee on foot.
Police set up a perimeter and located the driver, who was taken into custody without incident.
Brown said the driver, who has not yet been identified, did not have any firearms or illegal substances with him, and it was not yet known why he fled.
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The incident is still under investigation. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/pleasant-prairie-police-arrest-alleged-reckless-driver-who-tried-to-evade-police-on-foot/article_3ae360ac-ecf8-11ed-a93d-ebd97f487c8a.html | 2023-05-07T23:42:18 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/pleasant-prairie-police-arrest-alleged-reckless-driver-who-tried-to-evade-police-on-foot/article_3ae360ac-ecf8-11ed-a93d-ebd97f487c8a.html |
Libraries are often known for their books, computers and programs, but with Savannah Bezotte, a Carthage senior studying sociology, the Kenosha Public Libraries are becoming a place for community members to connect with local resources.
Bezotte, a Kenosha native, began her internship with the Kenosha Public Libraries last August. In her role as a social work intern, she bridges the gap in the unmet needs of the public and the organizations that can assist them.
What is your role?
Since we’re a public resource, we have a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds coming in (to the library).
We have a lot of people coming in who are housing insecure, seeking benefits or different outside resources, and librarians don’t necessarily know where to refer them. I am essentially bridging the gap between the unmet needs of patrons and the organizations that can provide to them in a way that librarians cannot.
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I probably see two to three patrons a day who need this kind of help and most of them are walk-ins. I’ve helped moms register their kids for school, I’ve helped people find jobs and apply for apartments, different housing options, Social Security cards, various benefits. There’s a whole bunch of things; it just depends on the day.
What have you learned?
Being here, I’ve been exposed to all three — micro, meso and macro — levels (of sociology). It’s been such a unique opportunity for me, because if I went directly into a field placement where I was just doing individual work, I may not have had that experience working for a big organization like libraries.
I have had the opportunity to work with different stakeholders, administrative partners and various organizations in the community as well as meeting with one-on-one interactions (because) I meet with patrons. I’ve gotten a broader perspective of what social work could look like.
How important is a library social worker?
I think it’s critical. I think (with all) the work that libraries are doing for the public, I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a social worker ingrained in what they’ve been doing for a lot longer than they have. Even in my short time as an intern, I’ve really seen there be a need (for a library social worker) with how many people I’m meeting with.
I’m seeing the staff can need support in terms of working out the best way to navigate some situations. I like the fact that I am a good support resource for patrons and library staff as well.
If people are interested in learning more about what library social work looks like, check out the website https://wholepersonlibrarianship.com, and a book called “Whole Person Librarianship.
What is ahead?
I’m pretty interested in clinical work. Field options for that include medical social work or private practice therapy. In August, I will be (pursuing) my master’s degree in social work. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/snapshot-savannah-bezotte-helps-connect-patrons-with-resources-as-kenosha-public-libraries-first-social-work/article_15e701b0-df00-11ed-b2a2-4f2523928f15.html | 2023-05-07T23:42:24 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/snapshot-savannah-bezotte-helps-connect-patrons-with-resources-as-kenosha-public-libraries-first-social-work/article_15e701b0-df00-11ed-b2a2-4f2523928f15.html |
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will hold its spring 2023 commencement on Saturday, May 13, in the De Simone Arena located in the Sports and Activity Center and will feature two separate ceremonies.
There will be a ceremony for graduates of the College of Business, Economics, and Computing and the College of Arts and Humanities at 9 a.m. It will be followed by a ceremony for the College of Natural and Health Sciences and the College of Social Sciences and Professional Studies at 2 p.m.
The two ceremonies will honor over 500 students, including 100 master’s degrees.
Both ceremonies will be followed by receptions in the Petretti Fieldhouse. Refreshments and photo opportunities will be available.
This semester’s commencement speaker will be UW-Parkside alumni Dr. Anton House, Class of 2011. Regent Cris Peterson of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will also be in attendance.
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House is assistant professor of history at Delaware State University. His research centers on late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States and African American histories. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in U.S. History from Howard University. He also holds a Master of Arts in U.S. History from Howard and a Bachelor of Arts in History from UW-Parkside.
UW-Parkside will recognize eight outstanding graduates and one Chancellor’s Award Recipient during the ceremony. The honorees are:
Alice Brecheisen—Liberal Studies
Jaide Brumfield—Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lamija Coric—Biological Sciences
Colin Erickson – Philosophy and Political Science
Jeremy Jin—Biological Sciences
Julia Jones – Physics
Briana Livesay—Theatre Arts and English
Amber Milojevic – MBA
Gabrielle Richardson—Criminal Justice and Spanish (Chancellor’s Award Recipient)
Richardson will address her fellow graduates. She majored in Criminal Justice and Spanish as well as minoring in Biological Science. Her goal is to become a doctor in a rural area. She won both the UW-Parkside and statewide Big Idea competition, the first UW-Parkside student to do so. Richardson was also accepted into the University of Wisconsin-Madison Rural and Urban Scholars Program, a pre-medical pipeline program. She volunteers in a free clinic, is a licensed EMT, and has recently been accepted to medical school.
For more details about UW-Parkside’s Spring 2023 commencement, visit online at https://www.uwp.edu/currentstudent/yourgraduation/ceremony.cfm. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/uw-parkside-to-hold-spring-2023-commencement-ceremonies-on-saturday-may-13/article_49a9aa9e-eb57-11ed-a27b-57ab5cb323bb.html | 2023-05-07T23:42:31 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/uw-parkside-to-hold-spring-2023-commencement-ceremonies-on-saturday-may-13/article_49a9aa9e-eb57-11ed-a27b-57ab5cb323bb.html |
ATLANTA — Two people are critically hurt after a triple shooting in Atlanta's Grove Park neighborhood Sunday, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
Authorities said it happened at a home along Francis Place NW, which is near the Grove Park Recreation Center and the Grove Park YMCA.
Details are limited at this time. 11Alive has a crew on the way to the scene and is working to find out more.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/triple-shooting-atlanta-grove-park-neighborhood/85-da3f57ab-f72a-4779-ac98-bbb1ec0d8b20 | 2023-05-07T23:44:55 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/triple-shooting-atlanta-grove-park-neighborhood/85-da3f57ab-f72a-4779-ac98-bbb1ec0d8b20 |
A New Jersey police officer who was wounded in a shooting nearly two months ago has died from his injuries, officials announced Sunday.
On March 10 at 12:38 p.m., Deptford Police Officer Robert Shisler, 27, conducted a pedestrian stop on Delsea Drive in Deptford Township, New Jersey. During the stop, a man, who police identified as 24-year-old Mitchell Negron Jr., of Deptford, ran off on foot, investigators said.
Officer Shisler chased after him and a struggle ensued between the two men, according to investigators. During the struggle, both men shot each other, officials said. A Taurus .38 special revolver, which was not Officer Shisler’s service weapon, was recovered at the scene, according to investigators.
Negron was pronounced dead at the scene while Officer Shisler was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.
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Officer Shisler spent several weeks in the hospital where he underwent multiple surgeries and extensive treatment. During that time he received massive support from the Deptford Township community.
On Sunday, Deptford Township Police Chief Joseph Smith announced Officer Shisler had died from his injuries.
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"Our deepest sympathies are with the Shisler family during this difficult time of bereavement,” Chief Smith wrote. “Though nothing can take away the pain of his passing, Bobby's incredible strength and bravery will be an unforgettable example of being Deptford strong. He was the best of ALL of us." | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-officer-dies-nearly-2-months-after-being-wounded-in-shooting/3561452/ | 2023-05-07T23:46:15 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-officer-dies-nearly-2-months-after-being-wounded-in-shooting/3561452/ |
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2 women are dead after multivehicle crash that closed Coastal Highway near Milton
Two women died from injuries sustained in a multivehicle crash after the driver of one of the vehicles veered into the path of other vehicles near Milton on Saturday, according to Delaware State Police.
At about 8:46 a.m. Mary Elicone, 59, of Rehoboth Beach, was driving a white 2019 BMW 540i south on Coastal Highway south of Cave Neck Road, police investigators said. For unknown reasons, the car drove off the right side of the road and into a drainage ditch, police said. It continued traveling in the ditch until it hit a stop sign outside the driveway of the Red Mill Inn.
The vehicle then changed direction and veered left reentering Coastal Highway, police said. The BMW crossed the highway's grass median and entered the northbound lanes of Coastal Highway, they said, where it collided head-on with both a gray 2017 Chevrolet Equinox and a red 2020 Jeep Renegade.
Police said the driver of the Equinox, 65-year-old Suzanne Misener from Lewes, was critically injured. She was taken to an area hospital by ambulance and was pronounced dead a short time later.
Elicone also was critically injured and taken to an area hospital. She, too, was pronounced dead a short time later.
The driver of the Jeep, a 52-year-old woman from Milton was taken by ambulance to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
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The collision closed northbound Coastal Highway for almost four hours and restricted southbound lanes for almost four hours.
This incident remains under investigation by Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit. Witnesses are being asked to call Master Cpl. K. Argo at 302-703-3264.
Contact reporter Anitra Johnson atajohnson@delawareonline.com. Join her on the Facebook group,Delaware Voices Uplifted. Support her work and become asubscriber. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/woman-from-rehoboth-beach-and-woman-from-lewes-died-after-vehicle-crash-on-coastal-highway-in-milton/70192773007/ | 2023-05-08T00:05:05 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/07/woman-from-rehoboth-beach-and-woman-from-lewes-died-after-vehicle-crash-on-coastal-highway-in-milton/70192773007/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — This part of Broad Ripple is usually quiet, but people heard gunfire Sunday morning.
"Probably like 30 or 40 shots. It was definitely the most I heard in one sitting, it was crazy," said Preston Ott.
Crazy because the shots happened right outside Ott's home near Main Street and Guilford Avenue around 1 a.m. It forced the 30 year old to take cover.
"We just got behind something and stayed low for a minute," he said. "Wizzed right by our cat tree, wizzed, hit a plant coming through and another shot further down the house."
Ott showed 13News where multiple bullets went through his window and side doors. His neighbors also had damage.
"Our bedroom window and there's bullets through that, our blinds are all cracked," said one of Ott's neighbors.
I counted at least eight cars riddled with bullet holes.
A woman who spoke to us off-camera said she was at a nearby bar when multiple cars were shot at, including hers, a rental.
The G-Block Urban Lofts also had a window broken out.
"And I just woke up," said Mike Barnhart.
The sound of gunfire woke up Barnhart, who lives just a few blocks away.
"There might have been different weapons, because you hear 'bang, bang, bang' and then rapid return fire," he said.
After living more than 20 years in Broad Ripple, Barnhart shared how, more and more, gun violence is changing their nice neighborhood.
"Broad Ripple used to be a nice neighborhood, where the worst you had was a few loud college kids and a few empty beer cans on your bumper in the morning, and that was it. Maybe a fight or two or a little petty vandalism, but now it's really getting out of hand," Barnhart said.
Indianapolis police said one person was taken to a hospital in good condition after the gunfire.
Barnhart hopes to see more officers in the neighborhood to try to get out in front of the violence.
"I think they're just reacting and they need to just be out here and make it very clear that they're here and if anything happens, they're going to be right there.
The Broad Ripple Village Association shared this statement:
"The Broad Ripple Village Association and the wider Broad Ripple community are infuriated by the violence that occurred in our community this weekend. While we are awaiting official details from IMPD, as there is an ongoing investigation of the events that transpired last night, it is clear the injuries, property damage, and risk of lives sustained warrant the attention of our city leaders. From a community that has constantly asked for help, we call on the mayor, city prosecutor, IMPD, and both city and state legislators to take a stand against this violence and implement effective solutions to create a safe and peaceful environment for our residents, visitors, and businesses." | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/broad-ripple-gunfire-leaves-1-wounded-multiple-cars-and-businesses-damaged-impd-shots-sunday/531-21b4ced0-a687-4656-9d79-0c097511d19d | 2023-05-08T00:05:53 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/broad-ripple-gunfire-leaves-1-wounded-multiple-cars-and-businesses-damaged-impd-shots-sunday/531-21b4ced0-a687-4656-9d79-0c097511d19d |
INDIANAPOLIS — More than five years after fundraising for a repair project began, the historic Nowland Avenue Bridge in Spades Park has reopened.
On Sunday, people crossed the restored bridge for the first time.
In the summer of 2017, a group of near-eastside neighbors started talking about the need to fix the bridge. It's the main corridor between Spades and Brookside parks and part of the planned Pogue's Run Trail.
Now they have another spot in mind for their next fundraiser.
"There's another bridge in Brookside Park, it's not slated anytime soon with the city for repair, and it's right next to where the Pogue's Run Trail will go, so that's our next goal is to try to get started on getting it repaired," said Laurie Klinger.
Organizers say hundreds of people and businesses helped to make the restoration project possible. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/historic-nowland-avenue-bridge-reopens-5-years-after-fundraising-began-spades-park-pogues/531-ad648499-d2a8-4644-bf17-15df07970838 | 2023-05-08T00:05:59 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/historic-nowland-avenue-bridge-reopens-5-years-after-fundraising-began-spades-park-pogues/531-ad648499-d2a8-4644-bf17-15df07970838 |
ELLENTON, Fla. — Deputies say they are searching for people inside two cars accused of shooting at each other Sunday afternoon at the parking lot of an outlet mall in Manatee County.
At around 4:40 p.m., the people inside the cars were seen opening fire at each other at the east parking lot of Ellenton Premium Outlets before driving away, a public information officer with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office told 10 Tampa Bay.
Mall security alerted the customers and stores of the shooting and urged everyone to take shelter while deputies determined if there was an active threat, the sheriff's office said in an updated news release.
There were no injuries reported during the incident and deputies say the shopping center was not in an active shooter situation. Stores were reopened at about 5:15 p.m. after law enforcement gave the "all clear" to the businesses.
Authorities say the shooting was a targeted dispute between the people in the car who knew each other and not aimed at any customers or bystanders.
Detectives say they were able to recover evidence from the shooting and are now following several leads.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting can contact the Manatee County Sheriff's Office at 941-747-3011. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/ellenton-outlet-mall-shooting/67-644e2509-2964-4172-b01b-0dff04cc6b3e | 2023-05-08T00:21:56 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/ellenton-outlet-mall-shooting/67-644e2509-2964-4172-b01b-0dff04cc6b3e |
ALLEN, Texas — The Allen/Fairview Chamber of Commerce has issued an apology on social media for a post that was shared to their Facebook page Sunday.
The chamber published on Sunday morning a scheduled post that warmly welcomed the group "Pulling Triggers, Pulling Corks" to its ranks -- the morning after a deadly mass shooting within its city at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
After sharp criticism for the posting, the chamber took down the social media post, and later published an apology.
In the apology, the chamber said that, while scheduling posts ahead of time is standard practice for its social media policy, this particular post was deleted because it was "insensitive and should not have been published" in the immediate wake of the Saturday afternoon shooting that at least nine dead and several others injured.
"These senseless acts of violence have no place in any community and deepest condolences are with the victims, their families, and the communities of Allen and Fairview," wrote the chamber.
According to its website, "Pulling Triggers and Pulling Corks" is a group for people that enjoy learning about firearms and drinks like wine or whiskey.
"Pulling Triggers and Pulling Corks is the melding of two Amazing Worlds, that can be enjoyed individually or combined during one event…But never at the same time," the website reads.
The Allen/Fairview Chamber of Commerce's since-deleted post about the company included a photo of Pulling Triggers and Pulling Corkk's logo, which features a firing pistol and a champagne bottle being uncorked in celebration.
What do we know about the Allen shooting so far?
Nine people died, including the suspect, in a shooting at an Allen outlet mall Saturday afternoon, and President Joe Biden confirmed the victims who died included children, although he did not specify how many.
Several law enforcement agencies responded to the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday.
Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd confirmed the deaths in a news conference Saturday night, and also said that seven people were still being treated in area hospitals.
The victims' names have not yet been released. The suspected shooter was identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, according to law enforcement sources.
Biden's statement also said the suspect was "in tactical gear armed with an AR-15-style assault weapon" as he shot people at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
"Eight Americans — including children — were killed yesterday in the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation," Biden said. "Jill and I are praying for their families and for others critically injured, and we are grateful to the first responders who acted quickly and courageously to save lives."
More coverage of the Allen mall shooting: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-mall-shooting-chamber-apology-for-insensitive-social-media-post-pulling-triggers-pulling-corks/287-818cde62-5d9c-4ea4-80dd-a8fd88cc1899 | 2023-05-08T00:23:17 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-mall-shooting-chamber-apology-for-insensitive-social-media-post-pulling-triggers-pulling-corks/287-818cde62-5d9c-4ea4-80dd-a8fd88cc1899 |
ALLEN, Texas — At least eight people were killed in a mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, May 6.
Several others were injured and are being treated at hospitals.
The suspected gunman, identified as Mauricio Garcia, was fatally shot by an officer at the scene, according to police.
The eight victims who died have not yet been officially identified by law enforcement, but President Joe Biden said in a statement Sunday that the victims included children.
Meanwhile, families of the victims have started identifying their loved ones who were killed.
This story will continued to be updated as more of the victims are identified.
Christian LaCour
Family members confirmed to ABC News that one of the victims in the Allen shooting was 20-year-old Christian LaCour, who was working as a security guard at the time of the shooting.
The family said he lived in the Collin County city of Farmersville, which is located to the east of Allen.
LaCour's sister Brianna Smith described him as a "really sweet kid." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-what-we-know-about-victims-killed/287-7ff8216f-f593-46ab-9e46-82ed940b94ed | 2023-05-08T00:23:23 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-what-we-know-about-victims-killed/287-7ff8216f-f593-46ab-9e46-82ed940b94ed |
Firefighters smashed through a fourth-floor apartment window Sunday to rescue four people found critically hurt inside a Manhattan building.
The afternoon fire triggered a quick response from the FDNY to the building near 190th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. Video showed black smoke coming from a window as crews worked to get control of the flames.
Officials with the FDNY said four people were found unconscious inside the Washington Heights apartment.
"My heart was racing a lot, beating really fast. I didn't know what to do, I was just standing," said Valery Tabares, a resident of the building.
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Tabares' family lives on the first floor of the building, and it was her mom who phoned in a 911 just before 1 p.m. when the fire broke out.
"All of a sudden they were bringing out the people, they weren't conscious, they were just there and they started doing CPR to two of the people," she said.
Firefighters carried the four victims out of the building. Officials said aid teams helped resuscitate the injured people rushing them to a hospital in critical condition.
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Tabares said one of the victims is a 98-year-old woman everyone in the building calls Mamita. Her caretaker and two men were the ones taken to the hospital -- all of them were in the same apartment, Tabares added.
Tenants in the building worried about their injured neighbors are also waiting to hear what caused the fire. A charred e-bike pulled out the building has raised question, but no cause has been officially determined.
"An e-bike was found in the apartment. The fire marshals determining right now whether it was involved, the cause, or just there," Deputy Assistant Chief Brian Gorman said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-people-critical-after-firefighters-find-them-unconscious-in-manhattan-fire/4311826/ | 2023-05-08T00:27:10 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-people-critical-after-firefighters-find-them-unconscious-in-manhattan-fire/4311826/ |
ALLEN, Texas — At least eight people were killed in a mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, May 6.
Several others were injured and are being treated at hospitals.
The suspected gunman, identified as Mauricio Garcia, was fatally shot by an officer at the scene, according to police.
The eight victims who died have not yet been officially identified by law enforcement, but President Joe Biden said in a statement Sunday that the victims included children.
Meanwhile, families of the victims have started identifying their loved ones who were killed.
This story will continued to be updated as more of the victims are identified.
Christian LaCour
Family members confirmed to ABC News that one of the victims in the Allen shooting was 20-year-old Christian LaCour, who was working as a security guard at the time of the shooting.
The family said he lived in the Collin County city of Farmersville, which is located to the east of Allen.
LaCour's sister Brianna Smith described him as a "really sweet kid." | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-what-we-know-about-victims-killed/287-7ff8216f-f593-46ab-9e46-82ed940b94ed | 2023-05-08T00:34:05 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/allen-texas-outlet-mall-shooting-what-we-know-about-victims-killed/287-7ff8216f-f593-46ab-9e46-82ed940b94ed |
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — A 29-year-old man was killed in a Sunday morning shooting in Fairfield, according to Fairfield Police.
Officers say they found the man shot to death at a home in the 2200 block of Woolner Avenue around 7:40 a.m. Sunday. Police described the homicide as isolated adding that there is no additional concern for public safety.
Officials have not said whether the gunman was arrested and declined to provide any more information about the circumstances surrounding the deadly shooting.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell announced that she will be hosting a full-day gun violence prevention summit on Monday, according to a news release.
The summit will focus on “how to improve our violence prevention initiatives in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.”
According to the release, the morning session will focus on community leadership and takes place 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the State Attorney’s Office located at 415 N. Orange Ave. in Orlando.
Worrell will meet with local public safety leaders and policy makers in closed-door sessions in the morning session where they will focus on further gun violence prevention efforts. In the afternoon session, local officials and crime-prevention experts will gather and they will attend a presentation by the gun violence prevention organization EveryTown for Gun Safety.
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A second public conversation and townhall portion will run from 6-8 p.m. at the Experience Christian Center at 5230 Indian Hill Rd. in Orlando.
In the evening portion, Worrell is scheduled to host a public conversation with the community about how to successfully prevent violence, including discussing what was covered in the morning session, according to the release. Bishop Derrick McRae of the Experience Christian Center will moderate the event, and the public is invited to participate.
“We have to do more than complain about the violence that is plaguing this community and make serious investments in prevention—investments based on research and evidence about what works,” State Attorney Monique Worrell said. “Finger pointing is getting us nowhere. I am excited to bring together a diverse group of leaders and experts to enhance collaboration and develop comprehensive strategies, so that, in the future, we can tell people we’ve prevented harm from occurring, rather than saying we are sorry it happened.”
Recently, Worrell has been at odds with Gov. Ron DeSantis over her record on prosecuting crime. In March, DeSantis said, “You have to hold people accountable.” “(The) state attorney in Orlando thinks that you don’t prosecute people and that’s the way that you somehow have better communities. That does not work.”
Last week, Worrell accused DeSantis of pursuing a “witch hunt” after receiving a request from a state committeewoman for information on two human trafficking cases.
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An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy is missing in the Porcupine Mountains area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy is missing in the Porcupine Mountains area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Hurley School District said in a Facebook post Sunday morning.
The boy's mom told WDIO that he was camping with family on the big and little carp area of Pinkerton trail when he went missing around 1 p.m. Saturday.
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, which is Michigan's largest, has 60,000 acres of old-growth forest, waterfalls, Lake Superior shoreline, rivers, trails and ridges, according to the state's Department of Natural Resources website. The park is a popular destination for camping, hiking, snowmobiling, fishing and more, the website said.
In a Sunday Facebook post, the State Park said: "Regarding the situation currently happening in the Porkies," dozens of agencies from across the UP and Wisconsin are there. To "limit the chaos," volunteers from the public "should not come out at this time." The post did not specify "the situation."
The school district's post said that people were calling them and asking if there was "anything they can do to help with the search and rescue."
"Many professional agencies from Wisconsin and Michigan have been employed throughout the area, and we are being told to please stay away from the area so they can best do their job," the post said.
The school district has two buses of volunteers on standby ready to help with the search if needed, according to the post.
The Journal Sentinel has reached out to Michigan State Police for more information. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/05/07/wisconsin-boy-8-missing-in-michigans-porcupine-mountain-area/70192949007/ | 2023-05-08T00:48:36 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/05/07/wisconsin-boy-8-missing-in-michigans-porcupine-mountain-area/70192949007/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Two Wichita police officers ran in the Prairie Fire Marathon Sunday morning.
The WPD posted on Facebook that Officer Larison and Officer Gupilan ran with their uniforms on.
The WPD says the two are both avid runners and a part of the local running community.
“They wanted to show their passion of the sport and their passion of serving the community by combining both,” the WPD said.
The WPD said the two also wanted to bring recognition to law enforcement officers across the n nation, with National Police Week just around the corner. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/local-police-officers-run-in-prairie-fire-marathon/ | 2023-05-08T00:52:20 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/local-police-officers-run-in-prairie-fire-marathon/ |
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